Church Hill Tunnel
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Church Hill Tunnel is an old Chesapeake and Ohio Railway tunnel, built in the early 1870s, which extends approximately 4,000 feet under the Church Hill district of Richmond, Virginia, United States. O
The sealed western portal to the Church Hill Tunnel
The eastern entrance to the Church Hill Tunnel showing the collapsed roof at top.
The east entrance to the tunnel in 2010.
Looking northwest into the tunnels east entrance in 2010. The floor is under several inches of water. The tunnel is sealed off by a wall some distance in from the entrance, barely visible in this photo.
Triple Crossing
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The Triple Crossing in Richmond, Virginia, is one of two places in North America where three railroad lines cross at different levels at the same spot, the other being the BNSF operated Santa Fe Junct
Church Hill Tunnel
…CSX Transportation, the successor entity to the C&O, which also owns the abandoned tunnel. The viaduct is also the highest level of Richmond's famed Triple Crossing, with railroads at three levels, believed to be only one of two such places in the world, near where it crosses Richmond's flood wall. After completion…
Triple Crossing in 1919
A photograph staged by the three railroads in 1950