NS - Dry Fork Branch Tunnel 4

Photos 

Curvature of short tunnel obvious

Photo taken by Timothy and Joann Phillips in August 2018

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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BH Photo #432842

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview

This tunnel and bridge are part of an increasingly disused Dry Fork Branch mostly carrying coal

Location

Tazewell County, Virginia

Status

Open to traffic

History

The bridge is dated 1910, the tunnel 1912.

Builder

- Pennsylvania Steel Co. of Steelton, Pennsylvania

Railroads

- Norfolk & Western Railway (NW)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)

Design

Deck plate girder

Approximate latitude, longitude

+37.12933, -81.69924   (decimal degrees)
37°07'46" N, 81°41'57" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")

Approximate UTM coordinates

17/437889/4109448 (zone/easting/northing)

Inventory number

BH 82480 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Update Log 

• August 8, 2018: New photo from Timothy and Joann Phillips
• August 7, 2018: New Street View added by Timothy and Joann Phillips

Sources 

• Timothy and Joann Phillips
• Norfolk and Western Historical Society - tunnel plan image courtesy of NWHS.org

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