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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 ]
Pennsylvania Railroad, Bow Ridge Tunnel: 1907 1987 Former Pennsylvania Railroad: Bow Ridge Derry Township: Westmoreland: PA-357: Sand Patch Tunnel: 1912 1992 CSX Transportation: Negro Mountain: Larimer Township: Somerset
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The tunnel was successfully closed in 1938 with a student strike ensuing. The effort to return the tunnel to service began in 1940. The effort to return the tunnel to service began in 1940. A partial tunnel collapse in Nov. 7, 1940 claimed the lives of five people, Haywood Turner, Charles Rosborough, Harper Fair, George Russell, and John Wright.
Newspapers reported "havoc everywhere," from grief-stricken wives to frantic efforts at impenetrable tunnels of collapsed top rock and crushed timbers. Two rescue tunnels were attempted, though volunteers sometimes removed only 20 feet a day. Hope faded for the victims of the disaster, most of whom were Irish and Lithuanian immigrants. Their ...
UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KDKA) — The body of Elizabeth Pollard, the missing 64-year-old woman who fell through a sinkhole while looking for her cat in Unity Township, Pennsylvania, has been found ...
Maryland State Police said Wednesday that they had discovered the bodies of two construction workers amid the wreckage of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed early Tuesday ...
Collapsed during reconstruction due to miscalculation 1 killed Bridge total damage The road under the bridge were partially reopened 3 days later. The bridge was reconstructed (again) and opened 18 months later [60] [61] Interstate 88 Bridge Unadilla, New York: United States 28 June 2006: Road bridge Collapsed during Mid-Atlantic United States ...