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Somerset County South Pennsylvania Railroad: Never used and omitted from the Pennsylvania Turnpike [52] Rays Hill Tunnel: Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) Rays Hill: 3,532 feet (1,077 m) 1940 [50] Sideling Hill Tunnel: Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) Sideling Hill: 6,782 feet (2,067 m) 1940 [50] Squirrel Hill Tunnel: Pittsburgh: I-376 ...
Pennsylvania Railroad successor Conrail abandoned this line to Hollidaysburg and most of the branch trackage along the Juniata River in 1981 and removed the rails. The Allegheny Portage Railroad was designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1987. [12] [13]
Pennsylvania Rail Trails are former railway lines that have been converted to paths designed for pedestrian, bicycle, skating, equestrian, or light motorized traffic. Rail trails are multi-use paths offering, at a minimum, a combination of pedestrian and cycle recreation.
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.
Pennsylvania and Sodus Bay Railroad - most of this was graded, and only needed rails when abandoned 1873. It ran south from Seneca Falls , crossed the competing Geneva, Ithaca and Sayre Railroad (later the Lehigh Valley Railroad ) at Romulus , then west of Ithaca to Van Etten .
Portal of the abandoned tunnel of the Allegheny Portage Railroad near Johnstown, PA, the first railroad tunnel in the United States. The eastern part of the PRR's main line (east of Lancaster) was built by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the Main Line of Public Works: a hybrid railroad and canal corridor across the state.
The Wabash Cannonball Trail is a rail to trail conversion in northwestern Ohio, U.S. It is 63 miles (101 km) long. [8] The North Fork of the Wabash Cannonball Trail is part of the North Coast Inland Trail, which plans to fully connect Indiana to Pennsylvania, [5] [9] and portions of the trail are included in the North Country National Scenic Trail.
The Turn Hole Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Built by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, [1] it carried part of the Lehigh and Susquehanna RR main line until 1912, and was used as part of a passing siding for several decades thereafter. It is now an attraction in Lehigh Gorge State Park.