Talk:List of tunnels in Pennsylvania

Tunnels
Welcome! I moved the Pennsylvania tunnels to their own page due to the sheer literary volume involved in accounting for them. Pennsylvania easily has more tunnels (particularly rail) than any other US state due to its geographical position largely in the Appalachian Mountains and including multiple major trade routes connecting the Northeastern and Midwestern US markets. It is my home state and covers more square miles of mountains than any other state east of the Mississippi River. I am unbiased, have added tunnel examples in California, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Texas and West Virginia, and will add more such examples in other states as I encounter learning about them. Heff01 (talk) 01:50, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

A few more rail tunnels
There are a few more that I believe should be added. Vang and Grahm are in the area of Monongahela, PA and were built in (if I remember right) 1931 and are of concrete construction. They both stand in relatively good shape. They carried the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway's Donora Branch until that line was abandoned to the best of my knowledge some time in the late 1970's or early 1980's. There is also the Simpson tunnel outside of Brownsville, PA which was built (I think) in 1903 by U.S. Steel before eventually being used by the Monongahela Railway's Dunlap Creek Branch until that line was abandoned in 1976. That tunnel was recently filled in (possibly blasted) likely due to the Mon-Fayette Expressway which is being built over top of it. I will probably make a page for these tunnels soon, as I have some info from books and other sources and photographs I have taken of them.

There is also a tunnel which I have never been able to find a name for that goes under U.S. route 40 in Washington County near the towns of Eighty Four and Glyde. It was completed but has since collapsed entirely, though some evidence of the northern portal remains. Construction on that line ended with the outbreak of world war 1 and it was later abandoned, track was never laid.

Nekom (talk) 14:05, 27 August 2010 (UTC)


 * It seems this tunnel is discussed here. Hhm8 (talk) 04:02, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

There is a tunnel on the B&O line with one end (approximately 40.232572 N, 80.096299 W) on what was my grandparents farm off Devore Road in North Strabane Township of Washington County. It is visible on Google Maps (Devore Rd is misspelled as Devare Rd). I do not remember where the other end is. The town in that area is called Thomas (Part of Eighty Four). Other towns in the area are Venetia and Finleyville. My grand parents passed away in the 1970s and 80s and I haven't been back there since.Rbdevore1951 (talk) 07:14, 23 August 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbdevore1951 (talk • contribs) 06:52, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

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