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... .
In 1948, a groundbreaking ceremony was held observing the start of what was called the Philadelphia Extension, according to "Never to be Forgotten."
That 100-mile extension started at Middlesex, near Carlisle, and ran through York County's northern tip to King of Prussia.
It 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.
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