List of tunnels in Pennsylvania

The following is a list of tunnels in Pennsylvania.

See also List of tunnels in the United States

Rail tunnels

Acheson Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Washington County [1]
Allegheny River Tunnel, Pittsburgh Light Rail, Pittsburgh (under construction)
Benford Tunnel, CSX Transportation, Confluence [2]
Big Savage Tunnel, 3,294 feet, Wellersburg, was Western Maryland Railway, now Rails-to-trails [3]
Buxton Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Avella, Washington County, one mile east of the West Virginia border [4]
Black Rock Tunnel, 1,931 feet, Phoenixville, Reading Railroad [5]
Broad Street Tunnel, carrying the Broad Street Subway under Broad Street but over submerged US Highway 1.
Brook Tunnel, CSX Transportation
Buck Mountain Coal Company Gravity Railroad Tunnel, 135 feet, Carbon County (abandoned) [6]
Carr's Tunnel Penn Central Greensburg, Pennsylvania [7]
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 - 100 feet drilled from north portal) [8]
Cork Run Tunnel, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburgh
Craighead Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Avella, Washington County, Two miles east of the West Virginia border near Buxton & Stateline Tunnels.
Crown Avenue Tunnel, 4,747 feet, Scranton, Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (now Electric City Trolley) [9]
Dillinger Tunnel, Emmaus, Reading Railroad (Perkiomen Branch) [10]
Factoryville Tunnels, 2,250 feet, East tunnel built in 1851, West tunnel built in 1883. Both abandoned in 1915. (Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad,) Factoryville to Nicholson [11]
Falls Cut Tunnel, CSX Transportation
Flat Rock Tunnel, 937 feet, Gladwyne, Reading Railroad (aside of and visible from the Schuylkill Expressway) [12]
Friendship Tunnel, Clearfield County
Fulton Tunnel, Clearfield, New York Central Railroad [13]
Gallitzin Tunnel, 3,605 feet, Pennsylvania Railroad, through Allegheny Mountain and under the Eastern Continental Divide [14]
Girard Tunnel, St. Clair, Mill Creek Mine Railroad (abandoned) [15]
Grays Ferry Tunnel, CSX, Grays Ferry, Philadelphia
Hogback Tunnel, Clearfield County, Beech Creek Railroad
Howard Tunnel, Northern Central Railway, New Salem, the second oldest active U.S. railroad tunnel, constructed in 1837, now on the York County Heritage Rail Trail [16]
Hoyt Tunnel, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania Railroad
Jacks Mountain Tunnel, Adams County, was Western Maryland Railway, now CSX [17]
Jeddo Tunnel, Hazle Brook, Reading and Northern Railroad (former Lehigh Valley Railroad)
Karthaus Tunnel, Karthaus, Clearfield County, New York Central Railroad [18]
Lansford-Hauto Tunnel, Lansford, Lehigh and New England Railroad (abandoned)
Lake Shore Tunnel, Oil City (abandoned) [19]
Lofty Tunnel, 1,100 feet, Schuylkill County, Reading Railroad, under Broad Mountain and the divide between the Delaware and Susquehanna River watersheds (abandoned) [20] [21]
Mahanoy Tunnel, 4,000 feet, Mahanoy City, Reading Railroad, under Broad Mountain and the divide between the Delaware and Susquehanna River watersheds [22]
Market Street Tunnel (West Philadelphia and Downtown 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 [23]
Mount Cobb Tunnel, constructed 1850, 755 feet long, Pennsylvania Coal Company Gravity Railroad, Mt. Cobb, Lackawanna County (abandoned)
Nay Aug Tunnel, Dunmore, Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad [24]
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. [25]
Panther Hollow Tunnel, CSX Transportation, Pittsburgh
Peale Tunnel, 1277 feet, Clearfield County, Beech Creek Railroad (abandoned - now part of Snow Shoe Rail-Trail)
Penobscot Mountain Tunnel, Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton Railway, Nuangola, Pennsylvania (2,700 feet, abandoned, north portal filled below Interstate 81) [26] [27]
Perkasie Tunnel, Perkasie, Reading Railroad (Bethlehem Branch) [28]
Pinkerton Tunnel, Pinkerton, Somerset County, Western Maryland Railway (abandoned)
Phoenixville Tunnel (aka. Fairview Tunnel), 811 feet, 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, 1637 feet, Port Clinton, Reading Railroad (abandoned)
Quemahoning Mountain Tunnel, Pittsburgh, Westmoreland and Somerset Railroad, omitted from the Pennsylvania Turnpike [29]
Rockport Tunnel, Rockport, Carbon County, Lehigh Valley Railroad (in Lehigh Gorge State Park, south portal visible from towpath across the river) [30]
Sabula Tunnels, Pennsylvania Railroad and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Clearfield County (go under the Eastern Continental Divide) [31]
Saint Clair Tunnel, St. Clair, Pennsylvania Railroad (abandoned) [32]
Saltsburg Tunnel, Norfolk Southern Railway, Saltsburg
Sand Patch Tunnel (1871), 4,777 feet, Somerset County, Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad (later Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) (abandoned) [33]
Sand Patch Tunnel (1913), 4,475 feet, Somerset County, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (now CSX Transportation) goes under the Eastern Continental Divide [34]
Shawsville Tunnel, Shawsville, Clearfield County, New York Central Railroad [35]
Shoofly Tunnel, CSX Transportation, Confluence
Shuman Tunnel, Mainville, Columbia County, Reading Railroad (Catawissa Branch) (abandoned)
Sideling Hill Tunnel, 830 feet, East Broad Top Railroad, Huntingdon County [36]
Spruce Creek Tunnels, Pennsylvania Railroad, Huntingdon County
Staple Bend Tunnel, first U.S. railroad tunnel, 901 feet, Allegheny Portage Railroad, Conemaugh Township, Cambria County (abandoned but now part of the historic Allegheny Portage Railroad) [37]
State Line Tunnel, Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway, Washington County [38]
Tamaqua Tunnel, Tamaqua, Reading and Northern Railroad (former Reading Company)
Turn Hole Tunnel, Jim Thorpe, Central Railroad of New Jersey (at the Glen Onoko access, abandoned but popular with Lehigh Gorge State Park guests) [39] [40]
Vosburg Tunnel, Lehigh Valley Railroad, Vosburg, Wyoming County [41]
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 [42]
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) [43]
Wrays Hill Tunnel, 1138 feet, East Broad Top Railroad, Huntingdon County [44]
Yatesville Tunnel, Yatesville, Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railroad (abandoned) [45]

Road tunnels

26th Street Tunnel, Philadelphia, takes Route 291 under the intersection of Passyunk and Oregon Avenues just south of its interchange with the Schuylkill Expressway [46]
Allegheny Mountain Tunnel, 6,070 feet, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Somerset County (goes under the Eastern Continental Divide) [47]
Armstrong Tunnel, 1,320 feet, Pittsburgh, goes underneath Duquesne University
Blue Mountain Tunnel, 4,339 feet, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Lurgan Township, northern Franklin County [48]
Fort Pitt Tunnel, 3,614 feet, Pittsburgh, Interstate 279
"Ghost Tunnel", carries Dawson Road under Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, Curtisville
Independence Hall Tunnel, Interstate 95, Philadelphia
Kittatinny Mountain Tunnel, 4,727 feet, Pennsylvania Turnpike, Lurgan and Fannett Townships, northern Franklin County [49]
Laurel Hill Tunnel, 4,541 feet, Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) [50]
Lehigh Tunnel, Blue Mountain, 4,400 feet, Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, goes under Blue Mountain between Lehigh and Carbon Counties [51]
Liberty Tubes, 5,889 feet, Pittsburgh
Negro Mountain Tunnel, South Pennsylvania Railroad, Somerset County, never used and omitted from the Pennsylvania Turnpike [52]
Rays Hill Tunnel, 3,532 feet, Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) [53]
Sideling Hill Tunnel, 6,782 feet, Pennsylvania Turnpike (abandoned) [54]
Squirrel Hill Tunnel, 4,225 feet, Pittsburgh, Interstate 376
Tuscarora Mountain Tunnel, 5,326 feet, Pennsylvania Turnpike, between Franklin and Huntingdon Counties [55]
Twin Tunnels, Valley Creek Road, Downingtown [56]
University City Tunnel, Schuylkill Expressway, Philadelphia (goes under the 30th Street Station and several blocks of streets with the University of Pennsylvania on the west and openings toward the Schuylkill River on the east) [57]

Other transportation tunnels

Auburn Tunnel on the Schuylkill Canal, 450 feet (140 m), Auburn, daylighted in 1857
Union Canal Tunnel, 5/8 mile, Lebanon [58]