The Brookville Tunnel was a historic railroad tunnel engineered by Claudius Crozet during the construction of the Blue Ridge Railroad in the 1850s. The tunnel was part of a series of four tunnels used
Claudius Crozet, Chief Engineer of the Blue Ridge Railroad.
The original Brookville Tunnel used the same style elliptical portals as the Greenwood Tunnel, seen here, and the Blue Ridge Tunnel.
Claude "Claudius" Crozet was a soldier, educator, and civil engineer.
Brookville Tunnel
…The Brookville Tunnel (also Brooksville Tunnel) was a historic railroad tunnel engineered by Claudius Crozet during the construction of the Blue Ridge Railroad in the 1850s. The tunnel was part of a series of four tunnels used to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains…
The North Entrance to the Blue Ridge tunnel
Crozet's grave on the campus of the Virginia Military Institute, in Lexington, Virginia