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\nMurray Schrotenboer gives private tours of the Fulton County tunnels on an abandoned stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and their inner workings.\u00a0 (See additional photos below.) Also of interest: The Susquehanna Trail: ‘Greatest highway in Eastern America’<\/a> and Once popular Ganoga Bridge now lightly used York County landmark<\/a> and Old Baltimore tunnel an intriguing reminder of the ‘Ma’ in Ma & Pa Railroad. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A York, Pa., Daily Record\/Sunday News photograher captured recreational uses of abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike<\/a> tunnels in Fulton County in the mold of the Howard Tunnel<\/a> on York County’s rail trail.<\/p>\n

One of those tunnels – Sideling Hill – is so long – a mile – that a flashlight is required to bike through it because, when you start in, there’s isn’t any light at the end of that tunnel.<\/p>\n

This all brings us to a little-known fact among many York countians. The Pennsylvania Turnpike runs through the tip of York County… .<\/p>\n


\nIn 1948, a groundbreaking ceremony was held observing the start of what was called the Philadelphia Extension, according to “Never to be Forgotten.”<\/a><\/p>\n

That 100-mile extension started at Middlesex, near Carlisle, and ran through York County’s northern tip to King of Prussia.
\nIt opened in 1950 and included a 4,526-foot-long bridge spanning the Susquehanna River from the York County side to Steelton on the eastern shore.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It’s impossible to see through the Sideling Hill tunnel. In other words, there’s no light at the end of the tunnel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Murray Schrotenboer gives a tour inside the control room on the turnpike’s Sideling Hill Tunnel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

*Edited, 8\/1\/13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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