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SEPTA - Perkasie Tunnel
Photos
Perkaise tTnnel -- September 4, 2010
Trackside view of front portal looking North towards Quakertown
Photo taken by Raymond Klein
BH Photo #178284
Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel under goes under Ridge Road (PA Route 563)-Landis Ridge on Former Reading RR now East Penn RR
- Location
- Perkasie, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1853-1857
- Builders
- - Edward Miller
- Thurlow of Chester, Pennsylvania (Contractor)
- Railroads
- - Commuter Rail
- Reading Railroad (RDG)
- Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)
- Design
- Tunnel
- Dimensions
-
Total length: 2,150.0 ft. (0.4 mi.)
Vertical clearance above deck: 28.0 ft.
- Also called
- Landis Tunnel (for the ridge it went under and the town of Perkaise wasn't there when the tunnel was built or Sellersville Tunnel for neighboring town.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.38025, -75.29375 (decimal degrees)
40°22'49" N, 75°17'38" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/475064/4470004 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Quakertown
- Inventory number
- BH 46253 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 9, 2018: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- September 25, 2010: Updated by Raymond Klein: Spelling and wording corrections to overview.
- September 19, 2010: Added by Raymond Klein
Sources
- Raymond Klein - Bookshelfthe [at] msn [dot] com
- HAER PA-514 - North Pennsylvania Railroad, Landis Ridge Tunnel, Beneath Landis Ridge & State Route 563, Perkasie, Bucks County, PA
- Dana and Kay Klein
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This is a duplicate of the N/S Landis Ridge Tunnel entry.Actually the Landis Ridge Tunnel entry should be changed to N/S Perkasie Tunnel and this entry should be merged into that one because Septa service stopped on this rail line over 30 years ago.