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NS - Fairchild Street Tunnel
Facts
- Overview
- Buried concrete tunnel over Fairchild Street on Norfolk Southern Railroad in Danville
- Location
- Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois
- Status
- Filled in
- History
- Built 1915, buried by fill in 2012-13
- Railroads
- - Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Wabash Railroad (WAB)
- Design
- Concrete tunnel
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 37.1 ft.
Total length: 40.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.13894, -87.61603 (decimal degrees)
40°08'20" N, 87°36'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/447522/4443360 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Danville NE
- Inventory numbers
- IL 092-6002 (Illinois bridge number)
BH 39105 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 17, 2011: New photos from Jacob P. Bernard
- May 6, 2010: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
- February 19, 2010: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
- February 4, 2009: Added by Robert Stephenson
Related Bridges
- Fairchild Street NS Overpass (Successor)
Sources
- Robert Stephenson - seinfeld99 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Jacob P. Bernard
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Water was found to be leaking out of the tunnel walls, and the tunnel was closed recently. It will be replaced by an overpass in 2013.