Lower Pine Ridge Tunnel
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North Carolina /
Spruce Pine /
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railway, tunnel
The 2,211' long Lower Pine Ridge Tunnel was built by the Clinchfield Railroad, which ran 277 miles between Spartanburg SC and Elkhorn City KY. This line has 54 tunnels, and is now part of CSX Railroad.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinchfield_Railroad
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 35°51'53"N 82°1'19"W
- Spencer Yard 149 km
- Railroad Realignment between Newry, SC and Clemson, SC (Abandoned) 152 km
- Railroad Realignment between Westminster, SC and Toccoa, GA (Abandoned) 176 km
- Columbia & Greenville Railroad Abbeville Branch (Abandoned) 178 km
- CSX Maxwell Yard 187 km
- Elberton, GA - (unfinished) Railroad (Abandoned) 211 km
- CSX Hamlet Yard 235 km
- Seaboard Air Line Railroad – Durham, N.C. to Creedmoor, N.C. 288 km
- Branchville, South Carolina 309 km
- SAM Shortline Passenger Train route 468 km
- Unimin Schoolhouse Mine and Quartz Processing Plant 10 km
- Quartz Corporation Mine 10 km
- Linville Falls, North Carolina 13 km
- Normanville, North carolina 14 km
- Lake James 16 km
- Micaville, North Carolina 18 km
- Mt. Mitchell Golf Club 20 km
- Mount Mitchell State Park 25 km
- Avery County, North Carolina 28 km
- Burke County, North Carolina 32 km