Schenley Tunnel

Schenley Tunnel

Schenley Tunnel is a railroad tunnel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Alternate names are Neville Street Tunnel or Pittsburgh Junction Railroal Tunnel.

It is located in Junction Hollow in the city's Oakland neighborhood where it carries a spur line of CSX Transportation about 70 feet beneath Neville Street. It measures 2,872 feet in length and the keystone notes that it opened in 1883 with Shaw, Stearns & Norris as its contractors.

References

*cite book | author=Toker, Franklin | title=Pittsburgh: An Urban Portrait | location=Pittsburgh | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press | year=1986, 1994 | id=ISBN 0-8229-5434-6

External links

* [http://www.pghbridges.com/pittsburghE/0589-4478/pghjctrr_tun.htm Schenley Tunnel] at pghbridges.com


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