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Sideling hill?

General Discussion
#1

#2

Any idea of where the picture originated?
Sideling is a word frequently used around here. Usually refers to a road not level from side to side.
I could imagine that garage here at the Saluda grade.
Ralph

#3

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/sidelinghill.html

http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/brochures/sideling.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideling_Hill

http://www.spikesys.com/EBT/Tour/shtunnel.html

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=825

Especially that last one

#4

That was the first Sideling Hill rest area on the PA turnpike…

hehehe :slight_smile:

couldn’t resist

#5

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Thanks for the links. Very interesting reading. Had I realized it was such a well know place, I would have Googled it myself!
Matter of fact, I realized I’ve been there, about 40 years ago!
Ralph

#6
Curmudgeon said:
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/western/sidelinghill.html

http://www.mgs.md.gov/esic/brochures/sideling.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideling_Hill

http://www.spikesys.com/EBT/Tour/shtunnel.html

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=825

Especially that last one


Yep - pic #6 is attention-getting.

#7

Ya still go sorta THROUGH Sideling hill on the Interstate…nice little museuam there and everything…

#8

Going to be going over/through it twice in July. At least once in MD and perhaps once in PA.

#9

Last Trip to York, that rest area was shut down, and they were doing major construction there…

FYI

#10

I was born in Pittsburgh and made many trips on the PA Turnpike going through the Sideling Hill tunnel. Since there were so many tunnels on the turnpike, I think there were 7, you did not give it much thought when you were driving. I haven’t driven the turnpike since they bypassed the tunnel. I plan to make a trip back to Pittsburgh this year and I will definitly take route 68 through Maryland just to see the cut.

#11

I have driven through there a few times. Its pretty neat to see a cross section of a mountain.

-Brian