The following is a list of tunnels in Pennsylvania.
Rail tunnels Acheson Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Washington County Allegheny River Tunnel, Pittsburgh Light Rail, Pittsburgh Benford Tunnel, CSX Transportation, Confluence, daylighted in 2012 Big Savage Tunnel, Wellersburg, was Western Maryland Railway, now Rails-to-trails Bow Ridge Tunnel (1864), Pennsylvania Railroad, Westmoreland County Bow Ridge Tunnel (1907), Pennsylvania Railroad, Westmoreland County Buxton Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Avella, Washington County, one mile east of the West Virginia border Black Rock Tunnel, , Phoenixville, Reading Railroad Broad Street Tunnel, carrying the Broad Street Subway under Broad Street but over submerged . Brook Tunnel, CSX Transportation Buck Mountain Coal Company Gravity Railroad Tunnel, , Carbon County (abandoned) Carr's Tunnel Pennsylvania Railroad Greensburg, Pennsylvania Catasauqua Tunnel, Lehigh and New England Railroad (abandoned), Catasauqua, Lehigh County, both portals covered, 735 feet Center City Commuter Connection Tunnel, Philadelphia, SEPTA Coburn Tunnel, Centre County, Pennsylvania Railroad (abandoned, now part of Penns Creek Trail) Columbia Tunnel, Columbia, Pennsylvania Railroad (Columbia Branch) (abandoned) Conococheague Mountain Tunnel, Path Valley Railroad, Perry County (incomplete, abandoned from north portal) Cork Run Tunnel, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh Craighead Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Avella, Washington County, east of the West Virginia border near Buxton and Stateline Tunnels. Crown Avenue Tunnel, , Scranton, Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (now Electric City Trolley) Dillinger Tunnel, Emmaus, Reading Railroad (Perkiomen Branch) Factoryville Tunnels, , east tunnel built in 1851, west tunnel built in 1883, both abandoned in 1915. (Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad,) Factoryville to Nicholson Falls Cut Tunnel, CSX Transportation Flat Rock Tunnel, , Gladwyne, Reading Railroad (aside of and visible from the Schuylkill Expressway) Friendship Tunnel, Clearfield County, New York Central Railroad (abandoned) Fulton Tunnel, Clearfield, New York Central Railroad Gallitzin Tunnel, , Pennsylvania Railroad, through Allegheny Mountain and under the Eastern Continental Divide Girard Tunnel, Girardville and Big Mine Run, Pennsylvania, Mill Creek Mine Railroad (abandoned) Grays Ferry Tunnel, CSX, Grays Ferry, Philadelphia Greer Tunnel, Norfolk Southern, Washington County Gwynedd Tunnel, North Wales, Pennsylvania, North Pennsylvania Railroad, daylighted by the Reading Company when electrified in 1931. Hauto Tunnel, Lansford, Lehigh and New England Railroad (abandoned), 3800 feet Hickory Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Washington County Hogback Tunnel, Centre County, Beech Creek Railroad Howard Tunnel, Northern Central Railway, New Salem, second oldest active U.S. railroad tunnel, constructed in 1837, now on the York County Heritage Rail Trail Hoyt Tunnel, Clearfield County, New York Central Railroad (abandoned) Jacks Mountain Tunnel, Adams County, was Western Maryland Railway, now CSX Jeddo Rail Road Tunnel, Hazle Brook, Reading and Northern Railroad (former Lehigh Valley Railroad) J&L Tunnel, CSX Transportation, Pittsburgh Karthaus Tunnel, Karthaus, Clearfield County, New York Central Railroad Lake Shore Tunnel, Oil City (abandoned) Lofty Tunnel, , Schuylkill County, Reading Railroad, under Broad Mountain and the divide between the Delaware and Susquehanna River watersheds (abandoned) Mahanoy Tunnel, , Mahanoy City, Reading Railroad, under Broad Mountain and the divide between the Delaware and Susquehanna River watersheds Market Street Tunnel (West Philadelphia and Center City Philadelphia), carrying rapid transit and streetcars under Market Street and the Schuylkill River Market Street Tunnel (West Philadelphia), carrying commuter rail trains under 32nd Street, and including an abandoned branch McGugin Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Washington County Montour Tunnel, Montour Railroad, Washington County abandoned. Mount Cobb Tunnel, , constructed 1850, used until 1885. Pennsylvania Coal Company Gravity Railroad, Mt. Cobb, Lackawanna County (abandoned) Nay Aug Tunnel, Dunmore, Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad Negro Mountain Tunnel, initial construction done for the South Pennsylvania Railroad, but later omitted from the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Nicholson Tunnel, Built by Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad in 1915, Factoryville to Nicholson Still used by Canadian Pacific Railway, and Norfolk Southern Railway trackage rights trains. Panther Hollow Tunnel, CSX Transportation, Pittsburgh Peale Tunnel, , Centre County, Beech Creek Railroad (abandoned - now part of Snow Shoe Rail-Trail) Penobscot Mountain Tunnel, Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway, Nuangola, Pennsylvania (, abandoned, north portal filled below ) Perkasie Tunnel, Perkasie, Reading Railroad (Bethlehem Branch) Pinkerton Tunnel, Pinkerton, Somerset County, Western Maryland Railway (abandoned - now part of Great Allegheny Passage) rail-trail Pinkerton Tunnel, Pinkerton, Somerset County, B&O Railroad, now CSX Transportation was daylighted in 2012 Phoenixville Tunnel (a.k.a. Fairview Tunnel), , Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Railroad (Schuylkill Valley Branch) (abandoned) Poe Paddy Tunnel, Centre County, Pennsylvania Railroad (abandoned - now part of Penns Creek Trail) Pottsville Tunnel, Pottsville, Pennsylvania Railroad (Schuylkill Valley Branch) (abandoned) Pulpit Rock Tunnel, , Port Clinton, Reading Railroad (abandoned), constructed 1838 Quemahoning Mountain Tunnel, Pittsburgh, Westmoreland and Somerset Railroad, omitted from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Radebaugh Tunnel, west of Greensburg, Pennsylvania Railroad, daylighted Rockport Tunnel, Rockport, Carbon County, Lehigh Valley Railroad (in Lehigh Gorge State Park, south portal visible from towpath across the river) Sabula Tunnels, Pennsylvania Railroad and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Clearfield County (go under the Eastern Continental Divide) Saint Clair Tunnel, St. Clair, Pennsylvania Railroad (abandoned) Saltsburg Tunnel, Norfolk Southern Railway, Saltsburg Sand Patch Tunnel, Somerset County, under the Eastern Continental Divide: First tunnel (1871), , Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad (later Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) (abandoned) Second tunnel (1913), , Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (now CSX Transportation) Schenley Tunnel, P&W Subdivision, Pittsburgh Shawville Tunnel, Shawville, Clearfield County, New York Central Railroad Shoofly Tunnel, CSX Transportation, daylighted in 2012, Confluence Shuman Tunnel, Mainville, Columbia County, Reading Railroad (Catawissa Branch) (abandoned) Sideling Hill Tunnel, , former Pennsylvania Turnpike, Fulton County Sideling Hill Tunnel (1874), , East Broad Top Railroad, Huntingdon County Spruce Creek Tunnels, Pennsylvania Railroad, Huntingdon County Staple Bend Tunnel, first U.S. railroad tunnel, , Allegheny Portage Railroad, Conemaugh Township, Cambria County (abandoned but now part of the historic Allegheny Portage Railroad) State Line Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Washington County Tamaqua Tunnel, Tamaqua, Reading and Northern Railroad (former Reading Company) Temple Tunnel, Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway, Fallowfield Township, Washington County. Turn Hole Tunnel, Jim Thorpe, Central Railroad of New Jersey (at the Glen Onoko access, abandoned but popular with Lehigh Gorge State Park guests) Closed to all access by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the owners of the tunnel, in 2023 because of rocks falling from the ceiling. Vosburg Tunnel, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Vosburg, Wyoming Countyhttp://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=14640575 Wabash Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Pittsburgh Wadesville Tunnel, Wadesville, Danville and Pottsville Railroad (destroyed by strip mining), second U.S. railroad tunnel White Cottage Tunnel, Pennsylvania Railroad, near Holbrook, Greene County White Haven Tunnel, White Haven, Central Railroad of New Jersey White Tunnel, Buffalo and Pittsburgh Railroad, Indiana Whitehall Tunnel originally B&O Railroad, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Windsor Castle Tunnel, Allentown Railroad, Windsor Castle, Berks County, Pennsylvania (incomplete/abandoned) Wrays Hill Tunnel, , East Broad Top Railroad, Huntingdon County Yatesville Tunnel, Yatesville, Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (abandoned)
Road tunnels Name Location Carries Crosses Length Opened Notes26th Street TunnelPhiladelphiaIntersection of Passyunk and Oregon Avenues just south of interchange with Schuylkill Expresswayhttp://www.northeastroads.com/pennsylvania200/pa-291_eb_at_i-076.jpgAllegheny Mountain TunnelSomerset County Eastern Continental Divide1939, 1965Armstrong TunnelPittsburghMotor VehiclesDuquesne University1927Berry Street TunnelPittsburghWest Busway1865oldest road tunnel in the United States, originally a rail tunnelBlue Mountain TunnelLurgan Township, northern Franklin CountyCorliss TunnelPittsburghCorliss StreetNorfolk Southern Railroad1914Fort Pitt TunnelPittsburghMount Washington1960"Ghost Tunnel"CurtisvilleDawson RoadBessemer & Lake Erie RailroadPenn's Landing TunnelPhiladelphia1979Kittatinny Mountain TunnelLurgan and Fannett Townships, northern Franklin CountyLaurel Hill Tunnel Cook and Jefferson TownshipsPennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned)1940Lehigh TunnelLehigh and Carbon countiesBlue Mountain1957, 1991Liberty TunnelPittsburghCrosstown BoulevardMount Washington1924 Mount Washington Transit TunnelPittsburghPittsburgh Light Rail and Port Authority of Allegheny County busesMount Washington1904 Negro Mountain TunnelSomerset CountySouth Pennsylvania RailroadNever used and omitted from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Rays Hill TunnelPennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned)Rays Hill1940Sideling Hill TunnelPennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned)Sideling Hill1940Squirrel Hill TunnelPittsburghSquirrel Hill1953Spring Garden Street TunnelPhiladelphiaSpring Garden StreetPhiladelphia Museum of ArtTuscarora Mountain TunnelFranklin and Huntingdon countiesTuscarora MountainTwin TunnelsDowningtownValley Creek RoadUniversity City TunnelPhiladelphia30th Street Station and several blocks of streets with the University of Pennsylvania on the west and openings toward the Schuylkill River on the eastWabash TunnelPittsburghMotor VehiclesMount Washington2004originally open from 1903 to 1946 as a rail tunnel, now serves HOV traffic
Other transportation tunnels Auburn Tunnel on the Schuylkill Canal, , Auburn, daylighted in 1857 Union Canal Tunnel, , Lebanon
See also List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania List of tunnels in the United States
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