L: (Satellite, a few hundred feet) Lakes
M: (Satellite, a hundred feet) Moores
I saw a length for the Lewis Tunnel that indicated it was almost as long as the Alleghany Tunnel. I added yellow lines to indicate where I think the cuts were extended.
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| Satellite plus Paint |
Alleghany is the tunnel that goes under the eastern continental divide and the remaining tunnels take the railroad down the east slope. The C&O summit is just east of the Alleghany tunnel. This was the sub-division for which the 6900hp H-8 class 2-6-6-6 articulateds were built for. [Jersey Mike's Rail Adventures]
The railroad goes up 609' in the 50 miles from Hinton, WV, to Alleghany; and descends 1008' in 30 miles to Clifton Forge. Even though the slope is less, eastbound coal trains needed a helper H-8 between Hinton and Alleghany because they were loaded with coal. And Virginians spell Alleghany with "any" instead of "eny." [TrainOrders]
Alleghany Tunnel
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| Postcard via BridgeHunter-A This original Alleghany bore was completed in 1870. |
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| wikimapia via BridgeHunter-A, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) In 1932 the parallel bore on the right was opened and the original bore on the left was converted to single track. |
Lewis Tunnel
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| wikimapia C&O Lewis Tunnel |
Kelly Tunnel
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| Jersey Mike's Rail Adventures Kelly Tunnel's east portal [I'm surprised that the track wasn't moved to the centerline to improve the clearances.] |
Moores Tunnel
This is the post that motivated this research.
A day later, Stanley's photo of the east portal showed up in my Facebook feed.
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| Stanley Short posted A westbound CSX unit coil steel train exits Moores Tunnel in its climb up Alleghany Grade at Backbone, VA on Oct. 25, 1992 with a dog's breakfast of motive power. [Jersey Mike's Rail Adventures has a photo of the east portal. A 1989 Flickr photo Another photo] |
A day later, Stanley's photo of the east portal showed up in my Facebook feed.
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| Stanley Short posted An eastbound CSX unit coal train drops down Alleghany Grade and through Moores Tunnel at Backbone, VA on Oct. 25, 1992, led by GP40-2 No. 6214. |
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| Stanley Short posted An eastbound CSX unit coal train pops out of Moores Tunnel, near Backbone, VA, as it drops down Alleghany Grade on May 18, 1997, led by CW44AC No. 269. |
Miscellaneous
"Mud, Kelly, Lakes and Moore" [The Lewis Incident] Was this the Mud Tunnel and it got daylighted?
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| 1939 White Sulphur Springs, 1949 Callaghan, 1947 New Castle and 1948 Ronceverte Quads @ 62,500 |
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