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Gilmor Street Tunnel; Wilson Street Tunnel; John Street Tunnel; Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, twin tunnels, Interstate 895 under Patapsco River, Baltimore; Borden Tunnel, abandoned rail tunnel, 1911, 957 feet long, Western Maryland Railway north of Frostburg, now part of Great Allegheny Passage rail trail
The Virginia Avenue Tunnel is used only for freight trains, while the First Street Tunnel is used only for passenger trains. Continuing south, the RF&P Sub crosses the Potomac River over the Long Bridge into Northern Virginia , and passes through Alexandria and Fredericksburg stations, ending in Richmond at the Richmond Terminal Subdivision .
The tunnel was constructed in 1870–1872, and finished on January 13, 1872, [5] by the B&P and later controlled by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). It originally served the B&P station on the present-day site of the National Gallery of Art, on the National Mall at 6th & B Street NW (today's Constitution Avenue) and was part of a branch line between Bowie and Alexandria that gave the PRR ...
The Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park is a linear regional park in Northern Virginia.The park's primary feature is the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad Trail (abbreviated as W&OD Trail), an asphalt-surfaced paved rail trail that runs through densely populated urban and suburban communities as well as through rural areas.
The other train, to the Robinson Terminal at Duke Street, ceased in 1974, and the tracks were pulled up in mid-October 1975. [6] [7] By 1980, the city was seeking federal funding to turn the tunnel into a bike trail, which was done before 1999. In 2003, the city added a crosswalk to Union Street to connect the tunnel to the park on the other side.
A Silver Line bus at the station in 2024. Chinatown station has two side platforms serving the two tracks of the Washington Street Tunnel.As with Downtown Crossing and State, the platforms are offset; the northbound platform runs north from Essex Street to Hayward Place, while the southbound platform runs south from Boylston Street (opposite Essex) to Lagrange Street.