Tunnel Hill West Bound Freight Tunnel Hill, Pennsylvania
 Blair County
 May 31, 2001.

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DEDICATION PLAQUE 

SECTION No 105
ALLEGHENY TUNNEL PENN. RAIL ROAD
JOHN RUTTER & SON CONTRACTORS, N. Y.
 J. EDGAR THOMSON, PRESIDENT
E. MILLER & H. HAUPT, CHIEF ENGINEERS
THOMAS SEABROOK, P. A. ENGINEER
THOMAS RIELLY, A. ENGINEER 
COMMENCED OCTOBER 14, 1831.
FINISHED     .    183

ENLARGED 1995
LENGTH 3,600 FEET

Yellow maintenance truck entering the tunnel at Tunnel Hill, Pennsylvania.

Maintenance truck heading west into the tunnel at Tunnel Hill, Pennsylvania giving reason as to why no west bound trains have passed all morning, May 31, 2001.  Rust red in color, the water draining in the foreground tells of acid run off from pass mining activity.  

West bound freight train about to enter the tunnel at Tunnel Hill, Pennsylvania.

By mid afternoon, the first west bound freight approached the tunnel, 
May 31, 2001.

Two west bound freight trains about to enter the tunnel at Tunnel Hill, Pennsylvania.

Before the first freight passed, a second westbound freight pushed west of the right hand track.

Clean burning locomotive heading west, about to enter the tunnel at Tunnel Hill, Pennsylvania.

And only minutes after the the first two freights passed a third came up the grade in a rush heading west.  Engine 9644 exhausts a clean hot vapor with no smoke, suggesting a well maintained locomotive.  May 31, 2001. 

James E. Frizzell
Post Office Box 595
Kimberton, Pennsylvania 19442

e-mail: jimmy@jim-frizzell.com

date posted: June 06, 2001.
last revised: April 07, 2004 .

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