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Turn Hole Tunnel, Jim Thorpe, Central Railroad of New Jersey (at the Glen Onoko access, abandoned but popular with Lehigh Gorge State Park guests) [41] [42] Closed to all access by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the owners of the tunnel, in 2023 because of rocks falling from the ceiling.
The line, which was used by Conrail from Kimberton to Phoenixville, was abandoned in the 1980s. It is near the 1835 Phoenixville Black Rock Tunnel 40°08′52″N 75°31′07″W / 40.147833°N 75.518497°W / 40.147833; -75.518497 , the third railroad tunnel to be built in the United States
The Turn Hole Tunnel is an abandoned railroad tunnel near Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. Built by the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, [1] it carried part of the Lehigh and Susquehanna RR main line until 1912, and was used as part of a passing siding for several decades thereafter. It is now an attraction in Lehigh Gorge State Park.
The Scranton, Montrose and Binghamton Railroad Company was an interurban railway, commonly referred to as the Northern Electric railway, which ran between downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, and its suburbs to the northwest, including Clarks Summit, Dalton, Factoryville and Montrose.
Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike Currently Pike2Bike Trail: Crosses: Rays Hill: Operation; Work begun: 1881 - railway 1938 - highway: Constructed: 1881–1885 - railway 1938–1940 - highway: Opened: October 1, 1940: Closed: November 26, 1968 - Interstate 76 (aged 28 years) Owner: South Pennsylvania Railroad abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike ...
The Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad (later Railway), previously the Lewisburg, Centre and Spruce Creek Railroad, was a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) in central Pennsylvania. Originally intended to connect the Susquehanna Valley with Tyrone and the ore lands to its northeast, it was built in two discontinuous and never-connected ...
Pennsylvania Railroad - Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad was a freight cutoff begun in 1907 from ... (1.21 km) of track, and in 1920 it was abandoned. [129] New York
An abandoned railroad is a railway line which is no longer used for that purpose. Such lines may be disused railways, closed railways, former railway lines, or derelict railway lines. Some have had all their track and sleepers removed, and others have material remaining from their former usage. There are many hundreds of these throughout the world.