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CSX - Alleghany Tunnel (1870)

Greenbrier County, West Virginia, and Alleghany County, Virginia

Photos 

CSX - Alleghany Tunnel (Old)

old tunnel on left; 1932 tunnel on right

Photo from Wikimapia

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #464584

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Tunnel for CSX Railroad
Location
Greenbrier County, West Virginia, and Alleghany County, Virginia
Status
Open to traffic
History
Opened in 1870. Augmented in 1932 by completion of a new parallel bore.
Railroads
- CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (C&O; CO)
Design
Tunnel
Also called
Allegheny Tunnel (1870)
Approximate latitude, longitude
+37.74930, -80.25950   (decimal degrees)
37°44'57" N, 80°15'34" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/565234/4178257 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Glace
Inventory number
BH 60827 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (9,803)
Alleghany County, Virginia (50)
Built 1870 (205)
Built during 1870s (1,528)
CSX Railroad (1,885)
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway (259)
Greenbrier County, West Virginia (37)
 Open (41,565)
Owned by railroad (14,333)
State line crossing (967)
Tunnel (1,374)
Virginia (1,446)
West Virginia (1,621)

Update Log 

  • December 11, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • January 6, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • May 2, 2014: Added by Robert Elder

Sources 

  • Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Geoff Hubbs

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