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Vance Tunnel
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Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel under Vance Ridge on Clinchfield Railroad (now CSX)
- Location
- Altapass Community, Mitchell County, North Carolina
- History
- Vance Tunnel is the 37th tunnel on the historic Clinchfield Railroad, linking the Ohio River Valley to the Atlantic coast flatlands
- Design
- 2 lined concrete portals (both north and south entrances for 78 feet), and 449 feet of unlined, rock-wall tunnel
- Dimensions
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Total length: 527.0 ft.
Deck width: 18.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 22.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.89502, -82.02444 (decimal degrees)
35°53'42" N, 82°01'28" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/407545/3972789 (zone/easting/northing)
- Elevation
- 2661 ft. above sea level
- USGS topographic map
- Spruce Pine
- Inventory number
- BH 51605 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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