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Jenson Tunnel, located in LeFlore County (just southwest of Bonanza, Arkansas), is the first and only railroad tunnel in Oklahoma. It was built through Backbone Mountain during the mid 1880s in Indian Territory by the Fort Smith & Southern Railway.
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 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]
Great Railroad Tunnels of North America. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5951-3. West, Graham (2005). Innovation and the Rise of the Tunnelling Industry. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-67335-8. Andrew R. Black (2020). Buried Dreams. The Hoosac Tunnel and the Demise of the Railroad Age. Baton rouge ...
Railroad tunnels in the United States by state or territory (25 C) + Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places by state (51 C) A.
The Blue Ridge Tunnel (also known as the Crozet Tunnel) is a historic railroad tunnel built during the construction of the Blue Ridge Railroad in the 1850s. The tunnel was the westernmost and longest of four tunnels engineered by Claudius Crozet to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains at Rockfish Gap in central Virginia .
Railway buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places (7 C, 25 P) Railway buildings and structures in the United States by state or territory (56 C) B