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An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways , closed railways , former railway lines , or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage.
Bergen Arches, Erie Railroad (abandoned), beneath Bergen Hill or lower New Jersey Palisades, Jersey City. Open cut with short tunnels. Central Jersey Expressway (NJ 29) tunnel, Trenton; Edgewater Tunnel New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad (abandoned), from Fairview to Edgewater; Holland Tunnel, beneath Hudson River between Jersey City ...
Memphis, Dallas and Gulf Railroad (formerly Memphis, Paris and Gulf Railroad) - under the latter name graded 2 miles of line near Little Rock 1907, [325] but then re-organised and consolidated several lumber railroads in 1910 with the intention of forming a bridge route by building from Memphis to Murfreesboro and from the Chicago, Rock Island ...
Coburn Tunnel, Centre County, Pennsylvania Railroad (abandoned, now part of Penns Creek Trail) Columbia Tunnel, Columbia, Pennsylvania Railroad (Columbia Branch) (abandoned) Conococheague Mountain Tunnel, Path Valley Railroad, Perry County (incomplete, abandoned 100 feet (30 m) from north portal) [12] Cork Run Tunnel, Pennsylvania Railroad ...
The railroad bought the Beacon Line right-of-way in 1995 for nearly $4.5 million and once considered using it as an east-west link for its Hudson and Harlem lines.
First railway and first use of metal rails in British North America; horse-drawn until 1838. Abandoned. Algoma Central Railway: Algoma and Cochrane Districts, Northeastern Ontario: 1899–1995: Acquired by WC. Algoma Eastern Railway: Algoma and Sudbury Districts, Northeastern Ontario: 1911–30: Acquired by CPR on July 14, 1931 by 999-year lease.
The Portland and Southwestern Railroad Tunnel, also known as the Nehalem Divide Railroad Tunnel, is an abandoned railroad tunnel near Scappoose, Oregon, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] The tunnel was driven by the Portland and Southwestern Railroad, whose chief business was logging. Unusually for a ...
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.