 There is no known evidence to support the legend that several workers fell into the concrete during construction and could not be extracted because of the need to keep pouring.The bridge was completed on December 1, 1910, about a year before the Cut-Off opened, which allowed construction trains to haul building materials to work sites east of the bridge.The tracks were removed by Conrail in March 1989, five years after the rest of the New Jersey section of the Cut-Off.