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Name (as assigned by HAER) Built Documented Carries Crosses Location County Coordinates WV-16: Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Kingwood Tunnel (abandoned) 1857 1984 Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Tunnelton: Preston: WV-37
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Other tunnels in New York State: New York City water supply system tunnels 1 and 2; New York City Water Tunnel No. 3; Otisville Tunnel on Erie Railroad, Otisville, Orange County [35] Shandaken Tunnel, New York City water supply system, between Schoharie Reservoir and Esopus Creek; State Line Tunnel, Canaan, on the Boston and Albany main rail line.
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Dangerous rock conditions at the east end of the tunnel and accidents with black powder caused many casualties, with a total of about 30 deaths and 300 injuries in the excavation of the Kingwood Tunnel and the contemporaneous Board Tree Tunnel on the same line. [1] The west portal of the original tunnel in 1974
This was complemented in 1930–1931 with a deck plate girder bridge that carried the B&O Main Line (now the CSX Cumberland Subdivision) to Martinsburg, West Virginia. A rail tunnel, known as the Harpers Ferry Tunnel, was built at the same time as the 1894 bridge to carry the Valley Line through the Maryland Heights, eliminating a sharp curve ...
The 2,350-foot (720 m) [1] tunnel used a segmental cast iron lining system pioneered on the contemporaneous Kingwood Tunnel on the same line. [2] Workers were recruited from coal mines in the area to excavate the tunnel. The tunneling operations used black powder as explosive. About 30 deaths and 300 injuries occurred in the excavation of the ...
The northern 51% of the tunnel is in West Virginia and the southern 49% in Virginia; Virginia shared the cost of the project. [ 2 ] Before the opening of the East River Mountain Tunnel, travelers wishing to cross the state line had to navigate the narrow, twisting, guardrail-less route of US 52 up and over the mountain (now designated as SR 598 ...