FULL EXPLORE of the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike Tunnel - Sideling Hill and its Story
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Come and get a FULL EXPLORE of the Sideling Hill Turnpike Tunnel.
In the 1880’s, as part of the modified and amended Pennsylvania Main Line of Public Works legislation, a railway route was in its construction phase along an east west corridor on the lower portion of Pennsylvania to cope with the impassibility of the Allegheny Mountains.
A total of 4.5 miles of tunnel was dug through seven mountains to achieve this goal, but ended up never getting used due to the already completed and efficiency of the canals.
Welcome to the location formally named in 1968, the 13 mile stretch of the abandoned portion for America’s First Super Highway, the Abandoned Turnpike Tunnels.
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my brother went to college and we used to get off at the Bedford exit so I’m talking about I guess early 60s or something. I don’t remember the rest stops any name like Howard Johnson’s or anything like that I think maybe they were run by the turnpike, I don’t know, I really enjoy what you’re doing. That’s cool.
Just went here today went to both tunnels was amazing
It is a wonderful trip to go and hit these tunnels.
@@ODDySEEy I agree
Great video. This is the most thorough walk-through I’ve seen.
A little about the equipment:
The big fans are pressurization fans.
The area above the roadway where you guys walked with all of the holes and slots is the air plenum into which the fans blow air.
The round holes in the tunnel ceiling are for the lights, and the rectangular slots are for air to enter the tunnel from the plenum above.
Thanks for watching and thanks for the contribution!
The open area was the location of the Cove Valley Howard Johnsons . My mother and grandmother both worked there. When the new section of turnpike was built they closed this restaurant and build the current Sidling Hill plaza.
When I was much younger, I remember every stop on the Turnpike being a "HoJo's". I use to LOVE their food.
I am also trying to find the location for the "Woodbury Mines" in the Cove. Heard a few ghost tales and that some remnants of the mine is still there... but cannot get the location data.
Yes you are correct. It also partnered with. . ( 76 ) for fuel. My house I grew up in and live in to this day sits off yhe old turnpike only about 150 yards from the rays hill tunnel
@@ODDySEEy I know what you are talking about. The mines are not easy yo find but i have been there. Very interesting creepy place if you would like I can assist you and show them to you. Jt be my pleasure
@@ODDySEEy you also may be interested in a few other places I have explored. And yes. With permission.
1 The abandon town of Crum.
2. The abandon claysburg papermill. I believe most others I know of you should already know. But check these 2 out. Crum has a bit of a dark history
Can you do a video about Centralia, PA? I’ve always wanted to visit there, but just haven’t had the time. I’d also like to learn more about the history of Centralia as well, and your history lessons are awesome, so hopefully you’ll be able to do a video there! Thanks for all you’ve done to this point-it’s been amazing!
Centralia is ON THE LIST. I am waiting for some better weather and a strategic alignment with another video I want to do just South of Centralia in "new centrailia" or Ashville. ;)
Centralia is a fun and interesting place to explore. You definitely should make the time to visit!
ODDySEEy ODDySEEy can’t wait! That right there is why I clicked that bell...will be watching for that notification! I’ve mentioned your channel to several people who like UrbEx stuff and they should be jumping on board soon as well.
@@kmf78 I have been there many times... it is a matter of capturing the correct story. :)
@@ODDySEEy The town just south of centraila is called Ashland actually, not Ashville. I live about a half hour away from that area, can't wait to see the video you do! Are you planning on seeing the abandoned coal mine that they give tours of?
Thank you SO much for the detailed video of this tunnel! I'm so sick of half assed tours of abandoned places. You left no hole in explored and saved me the 3 and a half hour car ride. 10/10 and on par with TVR exploring. Subbed.
One of the root reasons for creating this channel was for those who are unsure about a site visit, cannot make the trip, are incapable of the explore (age/illness), and so people know what they hell they are looking at when they get there. None of that "I think this tunnel was a nuclear silo" when it was just a turnpike hole. ;) Thanks for subbing.
i heard that the sideling hill tunnel was gonna be used for a railroad once but the plan for the railroad was was abandoned since both rays hill tunnel and sideling hill tunnel were left to slowly crumble now the interiors of these tunnels have some creepy quality to them neither of the tunnels have lights so a flashlight is required
Almost all of the tunnels, used and abandoned, were part of Vanderbilt's Folly.
The Southern Pennsylvania Railroad definitely is a fascinating story. Essentially near where I live, it would have been the equivalent of the PRR's Horseshoe Curve.
I could see that... I wonder if Horseshoe Curve just received better rep because of the background story.
@@ODDySEEy Well, they never laid track. By then the attempts at building the railroad went under. Out of the entire right of way that eventually became the Turnpike, only about 2-3 miles outside of Somerset, PA were eventually used by a railroad. The short lived Pittsburgh, Somerset & Westmoreland Railroad.
@@ODDySEEy Love your videos, but your background information on the South Penn Railroad is a little off. It was only related to the Main Line in that the first incarnation of the South Penn was going to have a connection to the Allegany-Portage Railroad, but that never came to fruition due to that project being abandoned. The charter was later taken over by William H. Vanderbilt, who was irate that the Pennsylvania Railroad bought a railroad in his territory in New York and was looking for a way to get back at them, along with investors Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick who were looking for cheaper shipping rates brought on by competition since the PRR had a monopoly. The project was abandoned 3 years in due to Vanderbilt realizing how much of a money sink it had become, and also from fears brought up to him by JP Morgan of what the competition may do to their profits. They struck a deal where the PRR ended up with the South Penn, but never opted to do anything with it.
You were also very near an interesting abandoned leftover of the South Penn. Not far from the western portal of the tunnel, along Oregon Road by the CCC Camp, is a sign for the RR Arch Trail, which leads to a large (you can walk through it slightly hunched) stone culvert over a creek just sitting in the middle of the woods in a valley. They were in the process of filling in the valley for the railroad grade, and the project was halted before they covered the stone culvert. Check it out if you're ever back in the area!
@@RedoubtProductions1754 That railroad actually finished and made use of one of the original planned tunnels of the South Penn, the Quemahoning Tunnel. You can still see the remains of the eastern portal of it just off off the road from mile marker 106. The South Penn story is quite fascinating, there's a guy named Russell Love who has done extensive research on the original right away and what can still be seen of it, posts loads of maps and has put a few books out on the subject.
@@sinistarxx Yeah, the PWS was finished. But I think it really only occupied the Southern grade for a few miles around Quemahoning...which unfortunately that tunnel is due to be destroyed with PennDOTs plans to widen the turnpike through there. Most of the PWS followed its own grade over Laurel Mountain. I'm pondering if it actually connected for a brief time with the Indian Creek Valley, but I haven't found any maps that confirm it.
Just discovered your channel looking up stuff to watch with my toddler about Horseshoe Curve. Super cool video! I’ve wanted to visit Sideling Hill Tunnel, and you made me want to go more! But I’m not gonna lie, what stuck out the most to me was you quoting Monty Pythons Holy Grail! 😂 “I will fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries” 🤣
If one is well read on books and well watched on iconic or pop culture/sub culture videos and music... one will find my literary references much more comical. Also, if you are a sci fi and fantasy nut, then you may find yourself deep down the rabbit holes I travel when I go into these worlds of fascination and discovery.
lets just say the echos of a car doing a burnout in that tunnel (at the end yinz ended the video at) sounds crazy. and no i didnt do it my 1 friend did, someone just left the gate open on the west side
Deafening
Did the State of Pennsylvania float Federal Bonds to complete work on the original turnpike stretch. The State of Pennsylvania could not afford the construction of the original stretch.
Was the Pennsylvania Turnpike on a time constant to complete the original stretch from Carlisle to Pittsburgh. We're contractors from all over the country as far away as California brought in to complete the WORK?
The rest area was Cove Valley. ESSO gasoline was brand sold in the picture I have of it.
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There was a HOJOs there. All of the rest areas had HOJOs back then.
I remember LOVING HoJos as a child.
There is sapost to be an abandoned tunnel in Breezewood
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It’s a shame these were bypassed.