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Negro Mountain Tunnel, the Glossary

The Negro Mountain Tunnel is a tunnel located in Negro Mountain in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It was built by New York Central Railroad as part of the proposed but never completed South Pennsylvania Railroad, which over time became known as "Vanderbilt's Folly". The tunnel is located near milepost 116.7 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike where it is ten miles east of the Quemahoning Tunnel (also built for the railroad but never used by the Turnpike), 16 miles east of the Laurel Hill Tunnel (used by the Turnpike but bypassed in 1964), and seven miles west of the Allegheny Mountain Tunnel currently used by the Turnpike.^[1]

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Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike

The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is the common name of a stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed in 1968 when a modern stretch opened to ease traffic congestion in the tunnels. Negro Mountain Tunnel and Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike are Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

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Allegheny Mountain Tunnel

The Allegheny Mountain Tunnel is a vehicular tunnel carrying the Pennsylvania Turnpike through the Allegheny Mountains. Negro Mountain Tunnel and Allegheny Mountain Tunnel are Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

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Laurel Hill Tunnel

Laurel Hill Tunnel is a tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed and abandoned in 1964. Negro Mountain Tunnel and Laurel Hill Tunnel are Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

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Negro Mountain

Negro Mountain is a long ridge of the Allegheny Mountains in the eastern United States, stretching from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland north to the Casselman River in Pennsylvania.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania Turnpike

The Pennsylvania Turnpike, sometimes shortened to Penna Turnpike or PA Turnpike, is a controlled-access toll road that is operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States. Negro Mountain Tunnel and Pennsylvania Turnpike are Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

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Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) is an agency created in 1937 to construct, finance, operate, and maintain the Pennsylvania Turnpike (both the mainline and the Northeast Extension).

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Quemahoning Tunnel

The Quemahoning Tunnel was a tunnel that was constructed for use on the stillborn South Pennsylvania Railroad. Negro Mountain Tunnel and Quemahoning Tunnel are Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and railroad tunnels in Pennsylvania.

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Somerset County, Pennsylvania

Somerset County (Pennsylvania German: Somerset Kaundi) is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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South Pennsylvania Railroad

The South Pennsylvania Railroad is the name given to two proposed, but never completed, railroads in Pennsylvania during the 19th century. Negro Mountain Tunnel and South Pennsylvania Railroad are Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.

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