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Blount Tunnel, a rail tunnel near Blount Springs. [3] Brocks Gap Tunnel, a 900-foot-long (270 m) CSX rail tunnel in Hoover near Birmingham, under Shades Mountain. [4] Cooks Springs Tunnel, a Norfolk Southern rail tunnel near Cooks Springs, on the main line between Birmingham and Anniston. [5] Coosa Tunnel a rail tunnel on an active Norfolk ...
Railway tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places (18 P) Railroad tunnels in the United States by state or territory (25 C) A. Amtrak tunnels (1 C, 7 P) B.
The Cascade Tunnel refers to two railroad tunnels, its original tunnel and its replacement, in the northwest United States, east of the Seattle metropolitan area in the Cascade Range of Washington, at Stevens Pass. It is approximately 65 miles (105 km) east of Everett, with both portals adjacent to U.S. Route 2.
The railroad tunnel is 24 feet (7.3 m) high, 18 feet (5.5 m) wide, and 6.2 miles (10.0 km) long. The apex of the tunnel is at 9,239 feet (2,816 m) above sea level. The tunnel has a gradient of 1 in 125 (0.8%). [3] As of 1989, the Moffat was the fourth-longest railroad tunnel
The St. Clair Tunnel is the name for two separate rail tunnels which were built under the St. Clair River between Sarnia, Ontario and Port Huron, Michigan.The original, opened in 1891 and used until it was replaced by a new larger tunnel in 1994, was the first full-size subaqueous tunnel built in North America. [3]
The construction of the tunnel required 13 million bricks and the waste dirt was used to shore up several areas of the city allowing for the construction of more homes and buildings. [5] The B&P tunnel allowed the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) direct access to Washington, D.C., for the first time by connecting its Northern Central Railway ...
Erie Railway, Dayton Tunnel 1971 New York and Lake Erie Railroad: Former Erie Railroad: Dayton: Cattaraugus: NY-161: Holland Tunnel: 1927 1987 I-78 / Route 139 (NJ side) Hudson River: Manhattan, New York, and Jersey City, New Jersey
The Barretts Tunnels are a pair of railroad tunnels in St. Louis County, Missouri, the first ones built west of the Mississippi River. They were built by the Pacific Railroad in 1853. [2] The tunnels were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [3]