Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike Currently Pike2Bike Trail
Crosses
Rays Hill
Operation
Work begun
1881 - railway 1938 - highway
Constructed
1881–1885 - railway 1938–1940 - highway
Opened
October 1, 1940
Closed
November 26, 1968 - Interstate 76
Owner
South Pennsylvania Railroad abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission abandoned Pike2Bike Trail
Character
Hiking, biking, and skateboard trail
Technical
Length
3,532 feet (1,077 m) - highway
No. of lanes
2
Rays Hill Tunnel is one of three original Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels that were abandoned (this one in 1968) after two massive realignment projects. The others included the Sideling Hill Tunnel, and farther west, the Laurel Hill Tunnel.
Rays Hill Tunnel is 3,532 feet (1,077 m) long. It was the shortest of the seven original tunnels on Pennsylvania Turnpike. Due to its short length, its ventilation fans were installed only at its western portal. Its eastern portal is the only one of the 14 tunnel portals on the original turnpike that has no ventilation fan housing. This difference can be seen by westbound traffic on the Turnpike.
The tunnel connects Bedford and Fulton Counties in South Central Pennsylvania.
massive realignment projects. The others are nearby RaysHillTunnel, and farther west, the Laurel HillTunnel. It was less expensive to realign the Turnpike...
opened to ease traffic congestion in the tunnels. In this case, the Sideling HillTunnel and RaysHillTunnel were bypassed, as was one of the Turnpike's...
was the less expensive option. Unlike the Sideling Hill and RaysHilltunnels, the Laurel HillTunnel is not on the bypassed section commonly known as the...
section holds the RaysHillTunnel, one of the abandoned tunnels of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The northern section holds Wrays HillTunnel, one of two on...
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Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike Laurel HillTunnelRaysHillTunnel Sideling HillTunnel Center for National Response. "Tunnel History". Archived from the original...
enthralled at it, then drives through it. The tunnel used in the video is the abandoned RaysHillTunnel on a 12-mile stretch of abandoned Pennsylvania...
RaysHill and Sideling Hilltunnels opened to traffic on November 26, 1968. When the highway was realigned to bypass the RaysHill and Sideling Hill tunnels...
photographed by Rothstein while driving through town. Night photo of RaysHillTunnel on Pennsylvania Turnpike by Rothstein in 1942 Early color photograph...
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tunnel, as well as bypassing the tunnels completely as was done for the Laurel Hill, RaysHill and Sideling HillTunnels. On December 24, 2014, the PTC...
nine tunnels and involved numerous curves and steep grades. Construction continued into 1885, with considerable work done in drilling the tunnels and grading...
while the other three (Laurel Hill, RaysHill, and Sideling Hill) were bypassed in the 1960s; the latter two tunnels are on a bypassed section of the Turnpike...
coordinates) This is a list of road, railway, waterway, and other tunnels in the United Kingdom. A tunnel is an underground passageway with no defined minimum length...
Sideling HillTunnel is 6,782 feet (2,067 m) long. It was the longest of the original tunnels on Pennsylvania Turnpike. Alongside the RaysHillTunnel, the...
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Pennsylvania Turnpike bypassing the Laurel HillTunnel in 1964, followed by the bypass of the RaysHill and Sideling HillTunnels in 1968. In February, 2022, the...
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