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The Marys Rock Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel in the Blue Ridge Mountains. [1] Located at mile marker 32.2 on Skyline Drive, the scenic byway that traverses the length of Shenandoah National Park, it is the only vehicular tunnel in the park.
Heroes Tunnel (formerly West Rock Tunnel) is a 1,200-foot-long (370 m), [1] twin-tube tunnel carrying Route 15 (Wilbur Cross Parkway) through West Rock Ridge in New Haven, Connecticut, opened in 1949. It is the only highway tunnel to pass beneath a natural land feature in New England, [1] although there are other types of vehicular tunnels in ...
Mary's Rock Tunnel. Mary's Rock has its fair share of legends of how the rock was named. One story claims that Francis Thornton wed Mary Savage and brought her up the mountain to show her the lands they would own together. In 2017, the song Mary's Rock, written by Will Hopkins, was recorded by Terry Baucom's Dukes of Drive.
Eugene Tunnel/Rock Island Tunnel # 3, abandoned rail tunnel, in use 1903–1980, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, under State Route 17 just south of Eugene; being developed into a rail trail Vale Tunnel /Rock Island Tunnel # 4, abandoned rail tunnel, in use 1904–1980, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad , under Bannister Road ...
The Moffat Tunnel is a railroad and water tunnel that cuts through the Continental ... (1,400,000 t) of rock, equal to 1,600 freight trains of 40 cars each. During ...
Main water supply tunnel for the Helsinki metropolitan area in southern Finland, drilled through solid rock. Metro Suzhou Rail Transit Line 3-11: Suzhou, China 86,542 m (53.775 mi) 2019–2023 Suzhou Rail Transit Line 11 and Line 3 are connected at Weiting station with through trains passing by. Longest metro tunnel Water supply Dahuofang Water ...
The Cave Rock Tunnel is a dual bore highway tunnel on U.S. Route 50 (US 50) along the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe approximately seven miles (11.4 km) north of Stateline, in Douglas County, Nevada, United States. It passes through Cave Rock, a volcanic stone formation.
The tunnel construction project required excavation of 2,000,000 tonnes (2,000,000 long tons; 2,200,000 short tons) of rock. On March 16, 1853, "Wilson's Patented Stone-Cutting Machine" (a tunnel boring machine ) was used; it failed after excavating 10 feet (3.0 m) of rock.