East trailhead Blue RidgeTunnel
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- Distance
- 0.86 mi
- Elevation gain
- 49 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 0 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,500 ft
- TrailRank
- 23
- Min elevation
- 1,364 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 25 minutes
- Coordinates
- 417
- Uploaded
- February 16, 2021
- Recorded
- December 2020
near Afton, Virginia (United States)
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Itinerary description
The Blue Ridge Tunnel (also known as the Crozet Tunnel) is a historic railroad tunnel built during the construction of the Blue Ridge Railroad in the 1850s. The tunnel was the westernmost and longest of four tunnels engineered by Claudius Crozet to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains at Rockfish Gap in central Virginia.
At 4,237 feet (1,291 m) in length, the tunnel was the longest tunnel in the United States at the time of its completion in 1858. The tunnel was used by the Virginia Central Railroad from its opening to 1868, when the line was reorganized as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (renamed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1878). The Chesapeake and Ohio routed trains through the tunnel until it was abandoned and replaced by a new tunnel in 1944.
At 4,237 feet (1,291 m) in length, the tunnel was the longest tunnel in the United States at the time of its completion in 1858. The tunnel was used by the Virginia Central Railroad from its opening to 1868, when the line was reorganized as the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (renamed Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in 1878). The Chesapeake and Ohio routed trains through the tunnel until it was abandoned and replaced by a new tunnel in 1944.
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