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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.
After the Civil War, the Virginia Central and former Blue Ridge Railroads became part of Collis P. Huntington's Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and helped complete Virginia's longtime dream of linking its navigable rivers of the Chesapeake Bay watershed with the Ohio River, which led to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Blue Ridge Railway was a 19th-century railroad in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It was originally chartered in 1852 as the Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina . Original plans were for a 195-mile line from Anderson, South Carolina , to Knoxville, Tennessee going through the mountains with as many as 13 tunnels including the incomplete ...
The Blue Ridge Railway Trail is a rail trail in Virginia. It is a 6.5-mile (10.5 km) gravel surface recreational trail used for biking, hiking and horseback riding and occupies an abandoned Virginia Blue Ridge Railway corridor. The trail was completed in sections between 2003 and 2010.
Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel in Oconee County, South Carolina is an incomplete railroad tunnel for the Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina in Sumter National Forest. [2] [3] The tunnel, along with nearby Issaqueena Falls, are now a Walhalla city park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. [1]
Crozet's Blue Ridge Tunnel seen here after its abandonment and replacement during World War II by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.. The Virginia General Assembly passed on February 18, 1836, an act to incorporate the Louisa Railroad company to construct a rail line extending from the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RF&P) westward.
Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) has sent a letter to the National Park Service expressing "strong support for designating the Blue Ridge Parkway as a National Historic Landmark".. Budd said in a news ...
Blue Ridge Railway may refer to: Blue Ridge Railroad (1849–1870) in Virginia, predecessor of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway; Blue Ridge Railway (1901) in South Carolina, predecessor of the Southern Railway until about 1990 Blue Ridge Railroad of South Carolina, 1852–1880, predecessor of the above; Blue Ridge Scenic Railway, tourist line in ...