Excavation started in 1848, first train of cars passed through 1850, The Great Locomotive Chase passed through April 12th 1862 during the Civil War, abandoned 1928 when new tunnel was built just to the north, refurbished 1990's, reopened 2000
Posted January 11, 2010, by Mary (harriet2577 [at] yahoo [dot] com)
I'm so glad you got some pics of the tunnel before they put all that tourist stuff in there.....I liked it much better the way I remember it when we first toured it together in 2001.
Your other bridges are so cool.....I wish you could have seen Jones Bridge and Snapp Bridge before the floods took them both - both were those old iron truss bridges with the metal slats between the concrets slabs on the decks that made such horrible noise and scared little children when you crossed!
I'm so glad you got some pics of the tunnel before they put all that tourist stuff in there.....I liked it much better the way I remember it when we first toured it together in 2001.
Your other bridges are so cool.....I wish you could have seen Jones Bridge and Snapp Bridge before the floods took them both - both were those old iron truss bridges with the metal slats between the concrets slabs on the decks that made such horrible noise and scared little children when you crossed!