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Cricket Tunnel

Boone County, Arkansas
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North Portal

Photo taken by Nathan Morton in Sept 07

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Overview
Tunnel on the Missouri and Northern Arkansas (formerly Missouri Pacific) just south of Omaha
Location
Boone County, Arkansas
Status
Open to railroad traffic
History
Built 1903-05
Design
Tunnel
Dimensions
Total length: 2,657.0 ft. (0.5 mi.)
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on September 19, 2007
Also called
Omaha Tunnel
Approximate latitude, longitude
+36.44472, -93.19262   (decimal degrees)
36°26'41" N, 93°11'33" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/482738/4033293 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Omaha
Inventory numbers
NRHP 07000954 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 36137 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Arkansas (1,219)
Boone County, Arkansas (24)
Built 1905 (554)
Built during 1900s (4,269)
Missouri & Northern Arkansas Railroad (17)
NR-listed (2,355)
 Open (28,458)
Owned by railroad (4,123)
Total length over 2500 feet (595)
Tunnel (554)
Union Pacific Railroad (834)

Update Log 

  • March 29, 2009: New photo from Nathan Morton
  • November 9, 2008: New photos from Nathan Morton

Sources 

  • Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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Cricket Tunnel
Posted December 5, 2010, by Terry (zecatfish [at] gmail [dot] com)

Again,

This was never part of the Missouri North Arkansas Line.

It is an active Union Pacific Tunnel.

Here is GPS tracks of the M&NA Line.

http://home.windstream.net/catfish/GPX/MNA_Railroad.gpx

Cricket Tunnel
Posted May 13, 2008, by Bob Huber (rdh4510 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

North approach.

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Cricket Tunnel
Posted May 13, 2008, by Bob Huber (rdh4510 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Pictures of the north approach to the Cricket Tunnel.

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