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PRR - Bow Ridge Tunnel (1907)
Description
Part of the extensive Pennsylvania Railroad system, the Bow Ridge Tunnel was constructed when the railroad realigned its rail tracks in this vicinity.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned tunnel on former Pennsylvania Railroad
- Location
- Indiana County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Abandoned
- History
- Built 1907
- Builders
- - A.C. Shand (Engineer)
- McMenamin & Sons (Contractor)
- Railroad
- - Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Design
- Stone tunnel
- Dimensions
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Total length: 630.0 ft.
Deck width: 42.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 30.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.46241, -79.36640 (decimal degrees)
40°27'45" N, 79°21'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/638501/4480364 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Blairsville
- Inventory number
- BH 56375 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 10, 2020: New photos from Brian Manville
- October 12, 2014: HAER photos posted by Dave King
- May 27, 2013: Added by Jacob P. Bernard
Sources
- Jacob P. Bernard
- HAER PA-269 - Pennsylvania Railroad, Bow Ridge Tunnel, Through Bow Ridge, 0.3 mile South of Conemaugh Dam, New Alexandria, Westmoreland County, PA
- Brian Manville