• The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is the common name of a 13-mile (21 km) stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed in 1968 when a modern...
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    designated exit 6 on the just-opened Pennsylvania Turnpike. In the 1960s, Breezewood became the junction of the Turnpike and the new Interstate 70. Later...
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    The Pennsylvania Turnpike, sometimes shortened to Penna Turnpike or PA Turnpike, is a controlled-access toll road that is operated by the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
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    Sideling Hill Tunnel (category Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission)
    Sideling Hill Tunnel is one of three original Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels abandoned (this one in 1968) after two massive realignment projects. The others...
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    Laurel Hill Tunnel (category Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission)
    Tunnel is a 4,541-foot-long (1,384 m) tunnel on the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed and abandoned in 1964. It is bored through Laurel Ridge, spanning...
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  • refer to: Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, agency overseeing the turnpike operations Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike, the abandoned section of road between...
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    Rays Hill Tunnel (category Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission)
    Rays Hill Tunnel is one of three original Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels that were abandoned (this one in 1968) after two massive realignment projects...
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    and the tolled, 110.6-mile (178.0 km) Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which connects the Delaware Valley with the Lehigh Valley, the...
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  • The Road (2009 film) (category Films shot in Erie, Pennsylvania)
    in Washington. The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike, a stretch of abandoned roadway between Hustontown and Breezewood, Pennsylvania, was used for much...
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    Hernshaw Farms. West Virginia Turnpike Interstate 64 in West Virginia Interstate 77 in West Virginia Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike Laurel Hill Tunnel Rays...
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  • Reading Railroad (Catawissa Branch) (abandoned) Sideling Hill Tunnel, 6,782 feet (2,067 m), former Pennsylvania Turnpike, Fulton County Sideling Hill Tunnel...
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  • Trail, a multi-use trail in New Jersey Laurel Hill Tunnel, an abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnel Lincoln Heritage Trail, a designated highway route in...
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    of roadway being left unused by a highway realignment. The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is one instance of this, where two 2-lane tunnels and 4-lane...
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  • The tunnel used in the video is the abandoned Rays Hill Tunnel on a 12-mile stretch of abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike east of Breezewood. The video ends...
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    concurrent with I-76 on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, which is a toll road. This is the oldest segment of I-70 in Pennsylvania, having been completed in 1940...
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    Sideling Hill (category Ridges of Pennsylvania)
    the South Pennsylvania Railroad. The railroad project ceased, and the tunnel was left abandoned. When construction of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was begun...
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    I-476 is the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The highway south of the Pennsylvania Turnpike is officially called the "Veterans Memorial...
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    follows the easternmost portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike; this portion of road is not signed as part of the turnpike. I-95 parallels its namesake Delaware...
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  • other use besides automobile use. The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike, a bypassed section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that features two vehicle tunnels that...
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  • Southern Alleghenies Conservancy (category Environmental organizations based in Pennsylvania)
    most notable include converting the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike (which the SAC bought from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in 2001 for $1) into a...
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    US 30 narrows to a two-lane undivided road and crosses the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike before it heads northeast into rural areas and climbs Rays...
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    Jersey Turnpike (NJTP) is a system of controlled-access highways in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The turnpike is maintained by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority...
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    tunnels are on a bypassed section of the Turnpike now commonly known as the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike. The Fredhälls road tunnel was opened in 1966...
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  • Negro Mountain Tunnel (category Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission)
    When the newly formed Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission bought the South Pennsylvania Railroad's right-of-way in 1937, the Turnpike considered using the...
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    has been paved. There are also some small cafes there. The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike features several bridges that are no longer used for their...
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    between the Pennsylvania Turnpike and I-95 was completed September 22, 2018; this allowed I-95 to be rerouted along the Pearl Harbor Memorial Turnpike Extension...
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  • Florida's Turnpike, designated as unsigned State Road 91 (SR 91), is a controlled-access toll road in the U.S. state of Florida, maintained by Florida's...
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    citizens tore down the abandoned tollbooths in Blakely. Originally, the turnpike was chartered by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1851, and remained...
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    Tunkhannock Township, I-80 and PA 940 in Tobyhanna Township, and I-476 (Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension) in Bear Creek Township. The road serves as...
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    Cumberland Turnpike, the Cumberland–Brownsville Turnpike (or Road or Pike), the Cumberland Pike, the National Pike, and the National Turnpike. In the 20th...
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