Virginia Avenue tunnel
| Virginia Avenue tunnel | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| use | Railway tunnel | |||
| place | Washington, DC | |||
| Number of tubes | 1 | |||
| construction | ||||
| Client | Baltimore and Potomac Railroad | |||
| completion | 1872 | |||
| business | ||||
| operator | CSX Transportation | |||
| location | ||||
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| Coordinates | ||||
| east | 38 ° 52 ′ 39 " N , 76 ° 59 ′ 28" W. | |||
| west | 38 ° 52 ′ 51 ″ N , 77 ° 0 ′ 13 ″ W. | |||
Map with all coordinates: The Virginia Avenue Tunnel is a railroad tunnel owned by CSX Transportation in Washington, DC
The single-track tunnel was built in 1872 by the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad , which merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1902 .
Since the Virginia Avenue Tunnel is too low to carry traffic with double-deck container carriers, CSX Transportation is building a replacement new building with two separate tubes from 2015 to 2018. So far, the tunnel has been one of the largest bottlenecks on the National Gateway freight axis between the Atlantic ports and Pittsburgh / Chicago.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ About the tunnel
- ↑ Check out the status of the new Virginia Avenue rail tunnel , March 31, 2016
- ↑ "The Virginia Av. Tunnel is one of the biggest bottlenecks for moving freight up the East Coast. The CSX Baltimore Beltline / Howard St. tunnel, the Trenton Line of CSX between Philadelphia and Port Reading Jct., NJ, and terminal trackage shared by CSX and NS between Newark, NJ and North Bergen, NJ are others. "
- ↑ Map of the Washington railway junction ( Memento of the original from November 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
