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Can not wait!!

How do we see this?

This video is absolutely wonderful!

Thank you Paul wagner posting this movie in youtube.I still remember all those days.

I’ve walked through it, it’s so surreal, you lose all light except the tiny bit at the end, the sounds of water dripping, it’s amazing!

It doesn't look like they did a very good job on restoring that tunnel the inside still looks the same like they didn't even touch it and that costed $5 million the Inside should have looked brand new and it doesn't I would have expected a cleaner look inside that tunnel for 5 million dollars add at least some lighting far as I'm concerned they got taken to the cleaners on that one 5 billion for that yeah right

Why were irish immigrants so discriminated against

I wanted to know if the past looked like the way it looked in films and videotapes or if it was a byproduct of shooting in film, this basically has that low budget television film feel that we have today. However, everyone looks very different although no one is in costume, just everyday wear.

I did the tunnel walk yesterday not knowing any of the history. I wish I could have watched this excellent documentary before. I think the walk would have been much enriched with reverence for the people who gave so much, even their lives, to build the tunnel and those who worked to restore it 150 years later. I definitely will do at the walk again with a deeper sense of understanding. I loved the curiosity of the children and also their musical contribution in the video. I can't imagine a better field trip for school children to take today. Thank you.

The background music really adds something to this documentary. You sense the suffering of the Irish laborers forced to endure such harsh working conditions. If I had been forced to listen to the shrill dirge of that horrible tin whistle every day, I would have been praying for a premature detonation or a rock-fall to put me out of my misery.

I walked this tunnel today, coming from the east entrance, and it was incredible! We were on a trip and saw a sign and thought we would stop. Amazing and creepy. So cold inside. Take two flashlights and a jacket! Got some fantastic pictures at both entrances inside.

I am 30% Irish and glad to see this tunnel taken care of

Beautifully written and recored window into history. We'll done, thank you.

If o get a boat and scoot my ass all the way to the end will i find a train or ?

I was so happy to discover this exceptionally well produced documentary. I grew up in Greenwood, a community nearby. I remember, early one morning my father took my twin brother and me (we were just 5 or 6 at the time, and I believe it was about 1958) to Staunton where he loaded onto a train and left us there alone. Turns out, we were told, before the train departed, it was the last time that steam locomotive would run from Staunton to Charlottesville and Dad wanted us kids to experience the last of a bygone era. He got in his car and drove all the way to Charlottesville to pick us up. He arrived before we did. For years and throughout my adult life, I thought the train had gone through the old tunnel but, now that I've seen this documentary, it must have been the new one. My most memorable part of the journey was rolling through a small community, next to the track, about a mile or two from the tunnel toward Charlottesville, called New Town. It's still there today and I would not hesitate to say the original settlers must have been some of the negro slaves who built the 17 miles of railroad from the tunnel to Crozet. Our nanny named Adelaide and her husband Sam (I think their last name was Stone) lived in a little cabin up on a hill above the tracks. Every morning either my mother or or father would drive up a long dirt road from our farm, "Longhouse,"' which is still there and includes Misty Mountain Camp Resort to New Town to pick her up and bring her down to the farm. The day we rode the train she was out near the tracks, waving to us as we went by. That was one memory I have never forgotten. My brother and I loved Adelaide like a mother. The most recent memory I'll never forget of this tunnel was just last week. when I, still a runner at 71, ran through the tunnel. It was the morning after rain and all the waterfalls on the rocky Piedmont side were flowing. It was beautiful and spectacular.

“Up up up the stairs unit we get to, the tunnel”

Love this! Reminds me so much of The Waltons program!

I have never heard of the Blue ridge tunnel. Tho I have heard of the blue ridge mountains of Virginia, the trail of the lonesome pines. Laurel & hardy. You are true stardom ....x

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whats crazy is that this was shot with the VX1000, Epic!

I'm so grateful I stumbled upon this video! I had never heard of this tunnel, this history until watching this. Sending infinite gratitude and love to all who originally created this tunnel, to all who were part of the restoration and to all who continue to preserve and share this beautiful piece of history...and to all who produced this amazing video❤

Incredible history

Definitely a must see and do. I hiked through it last year. Need to bring a flashlight as it’s pitch black dark inside.

Beautiful homage to the common man that did the hard work back then

Almost a mile long tunnel bore in the 1850s.Just amazing history!

Been Here 🤘🤘

$1200 in 1953 would be nearly $50,000 today so it's no wonder greedy men would Change tactics to make the Irish the ones risking the sacrifice of death because they were worth nothing! However don't try and tell that today of history because the Irish and other poor are forgotten simply because their skin was white!

I bid on this tunnel and my bid was 567 billion dollars up front and 2.6 million a month for 79 months guaranteed in order for myself and 2 helpers to witness the work of others who must present their own bids! Would you believe they passed! Absolutely ridiculous, I think the fix was in!

Old song we sung back in grade school, Drill ye terriers drill Drill ye terriers Drill, For its work all day For The sugar in your tay, Drill ye terriers Drill.

Mary Lyon was mentioned in this video. Is she from Massachusetts? Founder of Mt. Holyoke College? In my area we have the Hoosic Tunnel. Completed in 1877. Two hundred workers in the twenty four year construction. First practical use of nitro glycerin. The tunnel is 4-3/4 miles long. It’s still the gateway to the west for trains in the northeast. It has a ventilation shaft 12 feet in diameter and 1028 feet from tunnel floor to the mountains summit. A building houses a giant fan that pulls train exhaust out of the tunnel. It’s called central shaft. A building on top of the shaft caught fire during the construction. The burning Timbers and equipment fell on 13 men who were 600 feet of the way to the bottom and were killed. The shaft quickly filled with water and the bodies were not recovered for a year. Then the shaft was completed. Finally both ends of the tunnel met, the error was only 9/16 of an inch. Still revered as a great engineering feet. Check out the Hoosic Tunnel on RUclips!

Modern myth: "Workers in the old days were poorly paid" no, the wage was enough to feed them and their families and board them. Many smart workers held 2 jobs! Or even 3 jobs to make ends meet. Then there are the DRUNKS who drink away their pay and demand more money. That's how Unions formed, because drunks aren't good with money!! Tragically, lots of men in low skilled positions loved to drink lots of beer and whisky "rot gut" and rye whisky and even bath tub gin. Not smart!

Great Documentary. We often take for granted the effort and the sacrifices of the men that built this country. Now, people take these things works for granted. But we need to remember these efforts and appreciate them.

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It is OK to exploit the Irish

I see "ancient hieroglyphics" left behind from the earliest assholes who found it....hope it can be cleaned off and monitored. Annoys me to no end people who do this.

Probably haunted

Yet the Irish were ostracized by people in the big cities like NY, BOSTON…Probably the people who could afford to travel by that train!

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NOTHING IS MORE DEPRESSING THAN abandoning a Railroad tunnel that was created with so much effort...!

We just visited the tunnel and looked up the documentary after coming back home. How awesome it is to go in it and then hear the story!

How about church hill tunnel

I prefer caves, not tunnels, more so after the first five miles of completed cartography inside what nature made. Yes, I understand the human association in tunnels, but NASA said what people like me contribute has future apps. To explore moons and other planets. I'm not a tunnel rat.

Thanks for sharing X

Absolutely Amazing Experience walked through it yesterday. You can actually feel the 🌡 change in the summer heat and feel the 50 degrees F rushing out of the tunnel there is fresh spring water in the tunnel. It amazes me that this tunnel was built it reminds me of the hoover damn marvel. Bring a 🔦 1 mile long darkness. I hope the men who lost there lives building the tunnel are honored properly the irish settlers and African americans.

I love these documentaries…. But I hate that they ALWAYS have a terrible sound engineer that doesn’t know how to soften peoples consonants. It’s like hearing someone drumming their nails in my ears

We had / have a similar situation near where I live known as the Thurgoland Tunnel/s in the UK en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgoland_Tunnel (a double bore but only one now can be accessed) To see one end of it please see one of our videos where I take a walk / drone outing in our "Tunnel Vision" video over on our channel ruclips.net/video/fwogfx92Wv8/видео.html

What a great video! This really is a piece of history that should be shared with all our children!

What is the update of the project being done? It's 2022 now. I have never heard of this story til now.

I must echo that remark. I have travelled extensively but not physically.