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Breezewood is an unincorporated town in East Providence Township, Bedford County in south-central Pennsylvania, United States.Along a traditional pathway for Native Americans, European settlers, and British troops during colonial times, in the early 20th century, the small valley that became known as Breezewood was a popular stopping place for automobile travelers on the Lincoln Highway ...
The 1968 alignment is east of the heavily congested Breezewood interchange for Interstate 70 (I-70) eastbound at what is now I-76 exit 161. This was replaced two years after that alignment opened. The section of the turnpike was at one time part of the South Pennsylvania Railroad.
The western portal of the now-abandoned Sideling Hill Tunnel, along the former mainline of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Sideling Hill Tunnel, through Sideling Hill in Pennsylvania east of Breezewood, is currently in its third phase of life. In the 1880s, a tunnel was partially bored through the mountain by the South Pennsylvania Railroad. The ...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission started construction on a new toll highway from Carlisle, Pennsylvania to Irwin, Pennsylvania in 1938. When the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened on October 25, 1940, the Sideling Hill Tunnel was one of the seven original tunnels along the highway, six of which were built from the old railroad tunnels from the 1880s.
On November 26, 1968, the three twinned tunnels opened, and the bypass of the Rays Hill and Sideling Hill Tunnels opened. The new bypass also opened the Breezewood Interchange and the number of lanes along the turnpike expanded to four (two in each direction) or five (two in each direction, plus a climbing lane going uphill). [1]
Pennsylvania Railroad: River Front Railroad: PRR: 1876 1903 Pennsylvania Railroad: Rochester, Beaver Falls and Western Railway: PRR: 1889 1890 Pennsylvania Company: Rochester, Nunda and Pennsylvania Railroad: 1873 1877 Sold at foreclosure; no property in Pennsylvania Rochester and Pittsburgh Railroad: B&O: 1881 1885 Pittsburgh and State Line ...
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Negro Mountain Tunnel, initial construction done for the South Pennsylvania Railroad, but later omitted from the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Nicholson Tunnel , Built by Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad in 1915, Factoryville to Nicholson Still used by Canadian Pacific Railway , and Norfolk Southern Railway trackage rights trains.