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Eastern portal of the Sideling Hill Tunnel Western portal of the Rays Hill Tunnel. Today, the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike, as it is commonly known, is a popular tourist attraction. The PTC sold most of the property to the Southern Alleghenies Conservancy (SAC) for $1 in 2001. [3]
Sideling Hill Tunnel is 6,782 feet (2,067 m) long. It was the longest of the original tunnels on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Ray's Hill Tunnel and Sideling Hill Tunnel are now part of the Pike2Bike Trail. Together, the two tunnels as well as the roadway are commonly known as the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike. [1]
Sideling Hill Tunnel: Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) Sideling Hill: 6,782 feet (2,067 m) 1940 [50] Squirrel Hill Tunnel: Pittsburgh: I-376: Squirrel Hill: 4,225 feet (1,288 m) 1953 Spring Garden Street Tunnel: Philadelphia: Spring Garden Street Philadelphia Museum of Art: Tuscarora Mountain Tunnel: Franklin and Huntingdon counties I-76 ...
The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike. Bedford and Fulton counties, Pennsylvania America's first superhighway opened to the public in 1940. The Pennsylvania Turnpike was built nearly 20 years before ...
Rays Hill Tunnel is 3,532 feet (1,077 m) long. It was the shortest of the seven original tunnels on Pennsylvania Turnpike. Due to its short length, its ventilation fans were installed only at its western portal. Its eastern portal is the only one of the 14 tunnel portals on the original turnpike that has no ventilation fan housing.
Laurel Hill Tunnel is a 4,541-foot-long (1,384 m) tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed and abandoned in 1964. It is bored through Laurel Ridge , spanning the border of Westmoreland and Somerset counties.
The railroad project ceased, and the tunnel was left abandoned. When construction of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was begun in the 1930s by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on the right-of-way of the South Pennsylvania Railroad, the tunnel was completed for highway use by the turnpike. [citation needed] The tunnel, the longest of the seven ...
The work is part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission’s "project to reconstruct and widen Interstate 476 (Northeast Extension) between Mileposts A38 and A44 in Montgomery and Bucks counties ...