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West portal of B&P Tunnel in 1977. The Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel (or B&P Tunnel) is a double-tracked, masonry arch railroad tunnel on the Northeast Corridor in Baltimore, Maryland, just west of Pennsylvania Station. Opened in 1873, the tunnel is used by about 140 Amtrak and MARC passenger trains and two freight trains every day, as of 2008. [1]
The Baltimore and Potomac Railroad (B&P) operated from Baltimore, Maryland, southwest to Washington, D.C., from 1872 to 1902.Owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it was the second railroad company to connect the nation's capital to the Northeastern U.S., and competed with the older Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The Howard Street Tunnel, originally a 1.4-mile (2.3 km) long tunnel under Howard Street in downtown Baltimore, took four and a half years to build (1890–1895) and was the longest tunnel on the B&O's system. [6] Its construction cost $7 million (equivalent to more than $200 million in 2018) and required 2,400 workers. [7]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration advanced a key $6.88 billion grant to help build a long-delayed new railway tunnel between New York City and New Jersey, which would be the largest ...
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Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel, twin tunnels, 2003, I-93 (in coordination with the Dewey Square Tunnel), Boston. Dewey Square Tunnel, southbound I-93, southbound portion of the Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel, Boston; Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority tunnels in the Greater Boston area: MBTA Blue Line rail tunnel:
The tunnel box was substantially complete by November 2017. [222] The following phase would extend the casing between 11th and 12th Avenue as the development of Hudson Yards continues westward. [223] Work on the concrete tunnel box resumed in November 2023. [151] [224] To connect the tunnel to Penn Station, extensive track modifications will be ...