File:Cut at eastern approach, with portal obscured by train entering tunnel, looking NNW. - Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Black Rock Tunnel, Beneath Black Rock Hill, southwest HAER PA,15-PHOEN.V,2-2.tif

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Cut at eastern approach, with portal obscured by train entering tunnel, looking NNW. - Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Black Rock Tunnel, Beneath Black Rock Hill, southwest of Black Rock Dam, Phoenixville, Chester County, PA
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Lowe, Jet

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Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail)
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor
Title
Cut at eastern approach, with portal obscured by train entering tunnel, looking NNW. - Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Black Rock Tunnel, Beneath Black Rock Hill, southwest of Black Rock Dam, Phoenixville, Chester County, PA
Description
Robinson, Moncure; Robinson, Wirt; Wilson, William H; Appleton, James; O'Moriarty; Philadelphia and Reading Railroad; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail); Norfolk Southern Railroad; Louis Berger and Associates, contractor; DeLony, Eric N, project manager; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, sponsor; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor; Spivey, Justin M, transmitter; Lowe, Jet, photographer; Casella, Richard M, historian; Wuebber, Ingrid, historian
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Chester County; Phoenixville
Date 1999
date QS:P571,+1999-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER PA,15-PHOEN.V,2-2
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  • Significance: It is the second railroad tunnel built in America and the first tunnel with vertical construction shafts. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad has made significant contributions to America's transportation history and the history of the anthracite coal industry. In 1871 it was the largest corporation in the world, Moncure Robinson made significant contributions to the engineering and development of America's early railroads.
  • Survey number: HAER PA-520
  • Building/structure dates: 1835-1837 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1858-1859 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1888-1889 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1936 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1994 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3726.photos.361987p
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Object location40° 07′ 49.01″ N, 75° 30′ 55.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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