A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A full scale replica is part of a museum in Limerick, Ireland.

Interesting location.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

It still took 19 hours to fly to Hawaii from San Francisco, but you could fly and it beat 5-7 days on a boat!

Apparently they had sleeper berths on them like the railroads.

Nice. Cool too!
That's one of the reasons I enjoy visiting here. There is often something for me to learn. What would life be without learning something new (even like how to handle blueberries .)

[chuck]

The mockup in Ireland is in Foynes, Ireland in county Limerick. It was historically the flying boat terminus.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The mockup in Ireland is in Foynes, Ireland in county Limerick. It was historically the flying boat terminus.

Makes sense. Long and hard trip to make these days...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.......... how to handle blueberries.

Gloves and tweezers from behind a blast shield.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wisdom.

[rogruth]

In the late 1940s I built a model of the "Flying Boat". That is all I remember about it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Two in Boiling Springs....

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[rogruth]

War there a use for the tunnel and where did it go?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Was there a use for the tunnel and where did it go?

Did it become part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike system? I think its original intention was as part of a railroad route through part of the Appalachians .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Was there a use for the tunnel and where did it go?

Did it become part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike system? I think its original intention was as part of a railroad route through part of the Appalachians .

It was part of the proposed South Penn RR in PA and later became part of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

[chuck]

Nine tunnels of the old South Penn were:

Blue Mountain
Kittatiny
Tuscarora
Sideling Hill
Rays Hill
Allegheny
Negro Hill
Quemahoning
Laurel Hill

a tenth proposed tunnel was Sewickley which was supposed to pierce Chestnut Ridge but it was never started before the shutdown.

The tunnel site selection and construction was so well done that six of the original nine were rehabilitated to become part of the turnpike. Allegheny was relocated because of soft soil conditions.

The Proposed rail line was to have a 2% grade while the highway was designed for 3%.

There is an abandoned rail tunnel near Roxbury Connecticut, the Steep Rock tunnel. I can't find any reference to a Roxbury Tunnel in PA. There is a Roxbury GAP, aka a pass through the mountains near the site of the Blue Mountain exit on the Penn Turnpike. Maybe the photo is of the Blue Mountain tunnel labeled as "Roxbury"?

This is all from "Vanderbilt's Folly, a History of the Pennsylvania Turnpike", a 50 page tome I picked up at a rest stop/visitor center on I-80 that had a small convenience/gift shopback in the mid 70's before they were replaced by vending machines.

BTW, the tunnel in the photo has a circa 1884 label on it from this web site:

https://sometimes-interesting.com/tunnel-51/

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I can't find any reference to a Roxbury Tunnel in PA. There is a Roxbury GAP, aka a pass through the mountains near the site of the Blue Mountain exit on the Penn Turnpike. Maybe the photo is of the Blue Mountain tunnel labeled as "Roxbury"?

100+ years ago it might have been named for the closest town of any size....not that Roxbury is all that sizeable,

It would probably be the Blue Mountain tunnel; back to back with the Kittatiny, but Blue Mountain would be on the same side of that range as Roxbury.