Blue Ridge Tunnel (Modern) | railway, railway tunnel

USA / Virginia / Waynesboro /
 railway, tunnel, railway tunnel
Built in 1941/42 to replace the original tunnel dug by Cladius Crozet. The original 4,263-foot tunnel was the longest in the US at the time (1856) and one of the longest in the world, a remarkable feat of engineering, dug though solid granite with only hand drills and black powder, a decade before the invention of dynamite.

Shenandoah National Park



Rockfish Gap was also the site of the 1818 meeting of diginitaries, including Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and Chief Justice John Marshall, where Charlottesville was selected as the site of the future University of Virginia.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Ridge_Tunnel
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Coordinates:   38°2'2"N   78°51'28"W
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