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Blue Ridge Tunnel
Description
The Blue Ridge tunnel was the longest tunnel in the United States upon completion. It is also the first tunnel in the U.S. driven without vertical shafts. / The Blue Ridge Railroad, 17 miles in length, originally connected the terminus of the Louisa Railroad near Blair Park with the town of Waynesboro.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned tunnel on Railroad
- Location
- Nelson County, Virginia
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- History
- Built 1858
- Builder
- - Claudius Crozet
- Railroad
- - Blue Ridge Railroad (BR)
- Design
- Tunnel
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.03094, -78.85416 (decimal degrees)
38°01'51" N, 78°51'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/688330/4211420 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Waynesboro East
- Inventory number
- BH 63583 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 17, 2014: Photo imported by Dave King
- October 12, 2014: Added by Dave King
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER VA-2 - Blue Ridge Railroad, Blue Ridge Tunnel, U.S. Route 250 at Rockfish Gap, Afton, Nelson County, VA