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Seaboard Air Line Tunnel
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Seaboard Air Line Tunnel
Columbia, SC recently reopened the former Seaboard Air Line tunnel downtown up again, but as a walking and biking trail this time. These three ladies are among the first group to use the six hundred foot tunnel in this way.
Photo taken by Joseph Hinson
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BH Photo #248283
Description
-- Built in the early 1900s as part of Seaboard Air Line's Cayce, SC to Hamlet, NC rail line, a major eastern rail route
-- Closed to rail traffic in the early 1990s by SAL successor CSX
-- Reopened in 2012 as a pedestrian walk way
Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel under Hampton Street and Washington Street on the former Seaboard Air Line in Columbia
- Location
- Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Once a railroad tunnel, now open as a pedestrian trail
- Railroad
- - Seaboard Air Line Railway (SAL)
- Design
- Tunnel
- Dimensions
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Total length: 600.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.00229, -81.03964 (decimal degrees)
34°00'08" N, 81°02'23" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/496339/3762410 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Columbia North
- Inventory number
- BH 55497 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 15, 2014: New Street View added by Luke Harden
- February 14, 2013: Updated by Joseph Hinson: Included a brief history
- February 9, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added "tunnel" asthe design
- February 8, 2013: Updated by Joseph Hinson: Added categories "Rail-to-trail", "Seaboard Air Line Railway", "Tunnel"
Related Bridges
- SAL- Lincoln Street Viaduct (Same project) - The Lincoln Street Viaduct and Seaboard Air Line Tunnel were on the same rail line about a half mile from one another.