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Overhead view of the quarry. Thornton Quarry is one of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, located in Thornton, Illinois just south of Chicago. The quarry is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, 0.5 miles (0.80 km) wide, and 450 feet (140 m) deep at its deepest point. Gallagher Asphalt Corporation has been operating on the grounds of the quarry ...
Thornton Quarry, just south of Chicago, Illinois. One of the largest aggregate quarries in the world, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long, 0.5 miles wide, and up to 450 feet deep, site of a Silurian reef. Quarried since 1836. The quarry also acts as an emergency flood control reservoir as part of Chicago Deep Tunnel project.
Park Avenue Railroad Tunnel, Metro-North Railroad, Upper East Side, Manhattan; Queens–Midtown Tunnel, I-495 under East River between Midtown Manhattan and Queens; Riverside Park Tunnel, Amtrak/Metro-North Railroad, Manhattan; Other tunnels in New York State: New York City water supply system tunnels 1 and 2; New York City Water Tunnel No. 3
Park City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States. [4] As of the 2010 census , its population was 2,442 [ 5 ] and 2,422 at the 2020 census. Park City is the location of the Fayetteville Municipal Airport .
Exiting the Cumberland Gap Tunnel and Tennessee, US 25E has a trumpet interchange with the entrance road for the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park before heading west to the city of Middlesboro in Bell County, where it downgrades to a four-lane highway, and intersects Kentucky Route 74 (KY 74).
The tri-point of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia is located about 0.15 miles (0.24 km) northeast of the tunnel, between the tunnel and the Cumberland Gap. Less than 1 ⁄ 2 mile (0.80 km) past the southern portal of the tunnel is a parclo interchange with the western terminus of U.S. Route 58 (US 58), and the route crosses a railroad about ...
The tunnel is the first known example in the United States of a "full-scale" water diversion tunnel. It is also apparently the first "full-scale" tunnel of any type in the United States, its completion predating that of the Auburn Tunnel (1821) in Pennsylvania, whose construction was begun first. The tunnel is the only feature of Bell's iron ...
US 58 east (Wilderness Road/SR 383 east) – Cumberland Gap, TN, Jonesville, VA: Interchange; eastern terminus of US 58/SR 383. Continuation into Kentucky; Northern end of unsigned US 25E/SR 32 concurrency: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park: Cumberland Gap Tunnel: 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi