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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
The old tunnel (aka Blue Ridge Tunnel) is still intact and has been considered for possible re-use as a rail trail or bikeway. In November 2020 the old tunnel and a short trail running through it were opened to the public. Rockfish Gap viewpoint. In the early 20th century, a road which was designated U.S. Route 250 in 1935 was built across the gap.
VA-3: Blue Ridge Railroad, Greenwood Tunnel (bypassed) 1853 1983 Blue Ridge Railroad: Greenwood: Albemarle County: VA-5: Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Blue Ridge Tunnel: 1944 1983 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Rockfish Gap: Afton: Nelson
The Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel Foundation secured a $749,000 grant through the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to begin Phase I of the project to reopen the long-closed tunnel with a bike path and hiking trail. Phase I will be a footpath from the former Afton rail depot to a concrete ...
Raven Rock Mountain is adjacent to Jacks Mountain on the north while Miney Branch flows west-to-east between them in the Potomac River Watershed.The 1820 Waynesboro-Emmitsburg Turnpike with toll station for the 1787 crossroad was constructed between the mountains, where the Fight at Monterey Gap was conducted after the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg (Stuart's artillery at Raven Rock Gap shelled ...
Crozet's Blue Ridge Tunnel seen here after its abandonment and replacement during World War II by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.. The Virginia General Assembly passed on February 18, 1836, an act to incorporate the Louisa Railroad company to construct a rail line extending from the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad (RF&P) westward.
PA 16 intersects several roads including PA 456 in Cove Gap, PA 75 and PA 416 in Mercersburg, PA 995 in Upton, US 11 and Interstate 81 (I-81) in Greencastle, PA 316 and PA 997 in Waynesboro, and PA 116 in Carroll Valley. The road's main name is Buchanan Trail in honor of 15th President James Buchanan, who was born near the road in Cove Gap.