Abandoned Railroad Tunnel Pennsylvania RR Carr's Tunnel Greensburg PA

For Still pictures check out www.stuffthatsgone.com. " witches Tunnel" Wow a major archelogical find, right in a fancy housing development east of Greensburg PA in the old Railroad town of Donahoe, off Donahue Rd near Twin Lakes Park. This tunnel is known as Carr's Tunnel (incorrectly called Donahue Tunnel in the video) The Pennsylvania Central Railroad first alignment into western PA was completed in 1852. Around the turn of the century, this alignment was abandoned when the line was straightened and made a four track line. the new alignment was set north of this location. For years this was abandoned in the woods, until recently a developer put in some georgeous houses nearby--amazingly the tunnel was never plugged or buried, and the interior is pristine. Ready for a bike and jog trail.. visit www.stuffthatsgone.com buy Photos of this Tunnel at




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[PRR5503]

from Carney Tunnel, progress south, and go up a short hill, until the road levels-off, then raises again as you head to Mountain View;

the level area is where the original PRR crossed that road, and you can easily where the trees are cleared-out for that road-bed, towards that Tunnel

[theqman1956]

yeah--carney area--we took some pics--thanks

[PRR5503]

PRR retired it's steam-fleet approx October 1957, so these tracks were used after that, and were used during the diesel era until the late 1960's

to the East, the tracks connected to the current Mainline beyond carney, and those tracks were used as a siding, or for storing old freight cars:

my fiancee had family that lived near Carney Tunnel, and they recall seeing trains in the 1950s on that trackage

[theqman1956]

Good info thank you for the updates!

[Landaux]

I wish you guys would gave us a tour of INSIDE the tunnel, and shown the rail there and even a DATE should be shown on the side of the rail, indicating when the last time they replaced the rail was. Very interesting, and one other note and fear factor and I know im going to get a 'thumbs down'..If thoes are houses built above the tunnel, over time I would worry about a cave in?

[theqman1956]

Tracks pulled 1968-69 according to the viewer above

[myoldreteacher]

This is exactly what You Tube should be used for... Original, interesting, inspiring and informative content. Thanks for sharing!

[Marta7350]

Wow, what a fascinating old place! Those lucky folks in that housing edition. If I lived there and knew it, I'd be walking down there a lot when the weather was nice. Thanks for a great vid!

[cjplumm]

The tunnel fills up pretty good with water most of the time coal trucks from the carney mine went thru this tunnel up until the mid 80's and the house that sits between the tunnel and donohoe road was moved there from another location in the last 10 or 15 years making access to the tunnel a little harder now

[CPD0123a]

Oh, and for the people saying to go through it, you could, but it's been notorious for falling rock, at least going back to when my grandfather worked on that branch.

[CPD0123a]

Been there. Live just near there. It's not the mainline. according to my pap, who worked on the prr back then, that was right next to the current line. This is the Unity Branch. It ran from Donahue (Don A HUE) to New Alex. The georges station freight station is our barn-my pap bought the MOW shed, and his brother bought it. After sitting at the old house at twin lakes, my pap took it and reassembled it on our farm as the barn. It is an ATV trap, and the tunnel is notorious for falling rock.

[nakayle]

It's sad how many abandoned RR tunnels and bridges there are everywhere and so much track has been taken up you wouldn't even know existed now. On a rail trip I made in 1990 I saw countless factory spurs that had been disconnected and abandoned. If we hadn't abandon so much of our once great rail infrastructure maybe our highways wouldn't be clogged with trucks.

[cooldog60]

Dam I can't believe I didn't know about this.When I was a kid we used to walk the tracks from Irwin to Greensburg.

[jafnjlk]

@YourMom62401 When I walked through it, there were no water problems...that was before Eidemiller decided to use the tunnel as a throughway while he strip mined the south side of the tunnel, back in the seventies...also before the air duct(which I have pictures of) was filled in.

[flyingbrix]

No houses have been built directly above the tunnel, but a low traffic neighborhood road does run perpendicularly across the tunnel.

[devastator2110]

cool awesome train tunnel. In tunnell hill georgia we have an old train tunnel in side of a hill that is obsolete now it is a park sort of you can tour it for about $3.00 i think is the admission fee but the caretakers took out the old tracks and have a concrete walkway with motion lights inside it . the tunnel is 1056 feet long there is an active train track right next to it and a covered bridge on the approach to the tunnel it is part of the civil war history in georgia.

[trainlover479]

ok i have to say that the PRR was never known as the P. C. R. R. it mainly was known as the P.R.R.

[meliketrolleys]

Thanks for a very interesting video - very interesting part of the world.