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BHP - Gleason Canyon Tunnel

White Pine County, Nevada

Photo 

Ely Nevada Northern Railway 2059a

Photo taken by Flickr user DB's travels

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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BH Photo #273890

Map 

Street View 

Video 

Video posted to YouTube by nick252

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Facts 

Overview
Tunnel on Railroad (BHP Nevada Railroad)
Location
Ely, White Pine County, Nevada
Status
Abandoned
History
Built 1906
Railroads
- BHP Nevada Railroad (BHP)
- Nevada Northern Railway (NN)
Design
Tunnel
Dimensions
Total length: 310.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.24680, -114.90477   (decimal degrees)
39°14'48" N, 114°54'17" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
11/680806/4346256 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Ely
Inventory number
BH 59628 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Abandoned (3,926)
BHP Nevada Railroad (1)
Bore Tunnel (296)
Built 1906 (650)
Built during 1900s (7,625)
Curved (490)
Ely, Nevada (1)
Have street view (28,872)
 Nevada (159)
Nevada Northern Railway (1)
Owned by city (6,078)
Railroad (16,443)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,504)
Tunnel (1,359)
White Pine County, Nevada (4)

Update Log 

  • February 8, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Changed status to "abandoned"
  • February 8, 2014: Added by Dave King

Sources 

  • Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Luke

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