A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Lake Mill at Boiling Springs, Pa

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Beyond idyllic. I can hear it, smell it, and feel it, from here.
(And that' s in black-n-white, no less!!!)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Laughlin Mill, Newville, Pa

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Roy]

I wouldn't want to chop wood for those fireplaces.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wouldn't want to chop wood for those fireplaces.

Almost certainly coal fired....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

So now you know.....they did not tunnel through the mountina, they cut a groove, build the concrete parts, and then they put the mountain back,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And all those tunnels, was well as the turnpike itself, were constructed for a railroad, right? (I think we touched on this theory a longtime ago on this forum, but I cant find it.)
P.S. Those tubes, there, do not look as tall in diameter as I recall the highway tunnels being when I've driven through them.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And all those tunnels, was well as the turnpike itself, were constructed for a railroad, right? (I think we touched on this theory a longtime ago on this forum, but I cant find it.)

Not all, but many -- South Penn RR. Next valley over from my place in PA - drove through there Sat afternoon. Amberson Valley. I have a old family (not mine) photo of a picnic outing to the tunnel that was near Roxbury. Some of the grading and right of way from then is still visible.

P.S. Those tubes, there, do not look as tall in diameter as I recall the highway tunnels being when I've driven through them.

Hard to gain much perspective from those photos, but then again, that was then and I jhave no idea what modifications and expansions were performed since then

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And, who is this "Bill"?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a roadway I much enjoy traveling. Seeing all those communities arrayed along either side of the road, sometimes with whole communities visible; sometimes with only a lone church tucked up into a hillside, or a gaggle of trailers clustered together for friendship and support; sometimes groups of cows munching away and seemingly looking for amusement; modern luxurious new houses slashed into the forest, with invisible private roads leading up to them, all of it very imagination inspiring and distracting, along the way. I have to concentrate with extra dedication on my driving to keep from getting too far absorbed into imagined lives and narratives conjured up for the inhabitants. So many lives, lived and ended, and being lived.

And then there is that deep forest, seemingly almost everywhere.

It all affords a passing motorist a perspective on life.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Pennsylvania Turnpike is a roadway I much enjoy traveling.

I have driven too many parts of the PA TP way too many times for the word "enjoy" to be applied. I will now and again depart from the usual routes and try a lesser taken way home from wherever just for the diversity and to see something either new or at least places that I have not wandered by in decades.

It may cost more time, but it seems worthwhile.

[rex desilets]

Oh, it's worthwhile.
Back when we drove from CA to PA we'd take the I70 or I10 to get a few hundred miles away from CA and then "shunpike." I particularly liked to drive through small towns (watch for speed traps). Rufus' photos bring some of that back.

[robert.]

No way those tubes are for autos. Probably used for wires. May be even gas line. Pa turn pike is to expensive. It cost 22.5 cents a mile for my truck. 23,000 gvw.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

No way those tubes are for autos. Probably used for wires. May be even gas line. Pa turn pike is to expensive. It cost 22.5 cents a mile for my truck. 23,000 gvw.

Definitely not gas lines in a tunnel where accidents can and do happened.

System was completed in 1940 and I can remember when parts of some tunnels were just 2 lanes; Blue Mountain and Kittatinny were 2 lane until the late 60's. Grandfather drove a truck delivering stone in the 30's over the mountain through McConnellsburg for a job then. Today's tunnels have seen a lot of upgrades since 1940.