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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
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 ]
Other bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania are listed elsewhere. In the early 1800s, the first covered bridge in the United States was constructed by Timothy Palmer crossing the Schuylkill River at 30th Street in Philadelphia . [ 2 ]
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In 1924, the entire Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania was designated Pennsylvania Route 1 (PA 1). [12] In late 1926, the route from West Virginia to Philadelphia (using the new route west of Pittsburgh) was assigned US 30, while the rest of the Lincoln Highway and PA 1 became part of US 1 .
Josiah White and Erskine Hazard-founding partners of the Summit Hill & Mauch Chunk Railroad Pisgah Mountain and the topography of the Summit Hill and Mauch Chunk Railroad. The Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, also known as the Mauch Chunk and Summit Railroad and occasionally shortened to Mauch Chunk Railway, was a coal-hauling railroad in the mountains of Pennsylvania that was built in 1827 and ...
U.S. Route 22 (US 22) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway that stretches from Cincinnati, Ohio, in the west, to Newark, New Jersey, in the east.In Pennsylvania, the route runs for 338.20 miles (544.28 km) between the West Virginia state line in Washington County, where it is a freeway through the western suburbs of Pittsburgh, and then runs east to Easton and the Pennsylvania ...
The Wabash Tunnel, which carried the railroad through the hills south of the Monongahela River, sat abandoned for more than 50 years before reopening to one-way auto traffic in 2004. One of the two remaining piers from the Wabash Bridge that took rail traffic across the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh, from 1904 to 1946.