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Bow Ridge Tunnel (1864), Pennsylvania Railroad, Westmoreland County [5] Bow Ridge Tunnel (1907) , Pennsylvania Railroad , 630 feet (190 m) Westmoreland County [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Buxton Tunnel , Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Avella , Washington County, one mile east of the West Virginia border [ 8 ]
PA-240: Staple Bend Tunnel: 1834 1990 Former Allegheny Portage Railroad: Allegheny Mountains: Geistown: Cambria: PA-269: Pennsylvania Railroad, Bow Ridge Tunnel: 1907 1987 Former Pennsylvania Railroad: Bow Ridge Derry Township: Westmoreland
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The Big Savage Tunnel is a rail trail tunnel located about 9 miles (14 km) southeast of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. It, as well as the Pinkerton Tunnel, Borden Tunnel, and Brush Tunnel are part of the Great Allegheny Passage trail. [2] It was originally built for the Connellsville subdivision of the Western Maryland Railway. [3]
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. Its western portal may be seen from the eastbound side of the Turnpike at milepost 99.3.
This 5.15-mile (8.29 km) section had the most bridges and tunnels per mile to carry the Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way. The bridges were built between 1886 and 1902, and are multiple semi-circular arch bridges built of stone ashlar. An original tunnel was built in 1850, and is a 1,151-foot (351 m) long brick arched tunnel.
Big Spring State Park is a 45-acre (18 ha) Pennsylvania state park in Toboyne Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The park is on Pennsylvania Route 274, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) southwest of New Germantown. Big Spring State Park is a hiking and picnic area.
The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad constructed through the Allegheny Mountains in central Pennsylvania.It operated from 1834 to 1854 as the first transportation infrastructure through the gaps of the Allegheny that connected the midwest to the eastern seaboard across the barrier range of the Allegheny Front.