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FIMX - Willet Hollow Tunnel
Description
The Willet Hollow Tunnel was bored using the single-beam method (standard for railroad tunnel penetration at the turn of the century) through a natural gap at Mount Roosevelt, as part of the Tennessee Central's final segment from Monterey to Glen Alice, Tennessee (later changed to Rockwood) to connect to the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad (later Southern Railroad).Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel under Mount Roosevelt Gap on Franklin Industrial Minerals RR.
- Location
- Roane County, Tennessee
- Status
- Track is operated every other day Monday through Friday by Franklin Industrial Minerals. Train departs FIMX complex bound for Rockwood at 8am CST.
- Future prospects
- Tunnel has opened to the surface in one place, don't suggest entry
- History
- Tunnel was built as the last section of the railroad from Monterey to Glen Alice, Tennessee (later changed to Rockwood)
- Railroads
- - Franklin Industrial Minerals Railroad (FIMX)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Tennessee Central Railway (TC)
- Design
- Rock, reinforced with timber, held with metal plates
- Also called
- TC Willet Hollow Tunnel
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +35.84973, -84.73144 (decimal degrees)
35°50'59" N, 84°43'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/704863/3969657 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Rockwood
- Inventory number
- BH 45700 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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