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...from Washington, D.C. and points south, on Track 5. All aboard." In a rush the passengers grab their suitcases, shopping bags, and knapsacks and board the train. The engine starts up again and steam floats up to the steel rafters of the station. After a minute in a cramped tunnel, the train emerges into the early Sunday morning sunshine...
...train enters a tunnel as it crosses under the Hudson River. In a minute it has halted in Penn Station, where crowds of people swirl on the platform, rushing to get a seat. The loudspeaker announces, "The Southern Crescent leaving in ten minutes for points north...New Haven... Providence...Boston." A uniformed porter carries the heavy suitcase of a tall, slender woman who wears sunglasses despite the dimness of the platform...
Bush said the utility would be ready to begin blasting the tunnel for the project within two months. New York City officials and environmentalists have expressed fears that the blasting may damage the Catskill Aqueduct, which supplies about 40 per cent of the city's water supply...
...spokesman could not give a specific date when the blasting would reach its closest point to the aqueduct, about half way between the top and the bottom of the Storm King plant's tunnel to the Hudson...
...There's no light at the end of the tunnel." Others, however, are more optimistic about the conservative cause...