Results tagged “Howard Tunnel” from York Town Square

Murray Schrotenboer gives private tours of the Fulton County tunnels on an abandoned stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike and their inner workings. Here, he stops to show a mannequin head jokingly posted on an old light housing, certain to increase the heart rate of an unsuspecting cyclist.

Photographer Bil Bowden captured recreational uses of abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels in Fulton County in the mold of the Howard Tunnel on York County's rail trail.

One of those tunnels is so long - a mile - that a flashlight is required to ride through it because, when you start in, there's isn't any light at the end of that tunnel.

This all brings us to a little-known fact among many York countians. The Pennsylvania Turnpike runs through the tip of York County... .

Bob Kinsley rides Mexican Wave through the Howard Tunnel on the Rail Trail. The tunnel is one of the oldest in the United States.

No matter which direction York County rail trails run, users probably won't see any artifact or remnant of the past more imposing or memorable than the Howard Tunnel on the mother trail from the Maryland Line to York.

The tunnel was constructed in 1836-1837 through a hillside between Glatfelter's and Brillhart station. Trains used the hole in the hill to reach York for the first time in 1838. After trains reached York, that started a flow of raw materials to the port of Baltimore and other destinations in the South... .