Lovely to see Afton Mtn. interchange in relief. US Hwy 250, I 64, and the Blue Ridge Parkway in one shot. The tunnel construction preceded Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite by decades. My niece took violin lessons in Crozet.
This is a tourist attraction you can walk through now. You can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it feels like you are never going to reach it walking through. It’s a very long strait tunnel. It took about 7 years to complete. Under todays leadership it would take 30 years 😂
@@JackDecker63 Yes you can but plan to get wet at least your feet. There is quite a bit of water leaking through the walls in places but it a very neat experience so give it a look. Also as others have said bring flash lights!!!
I love it how the narrator and the people being interviewed just toss adjectives around. Am I the only person that saw that the tunnel entrances were nowhere near crumbling?
The walls inside the tunnel that the gas company installed are now gone and it's a nature walk/bike trail. It's been renovated back to its original state, old bricks repaired etc.
They fixed up and opened this tunnel to the public in 2020. The tunnel, the trail, and the parking areas on either side are in very good condition…. The narration is years out of sync with the current situation. I hiked through it on 8/1/2024.
Dude your info and pictures are old. You need to do some on ground research before making a video. This location is a tourist attraction it’s entrances are not crumbling and there is no concrete wall. Go check it out. It’s pretty cool to see in person and it’s not trespassing so you don’t have to worry about getting into trouble.
@@BrianButterworth-s4z I like how it's posted on the Science Channel's page, it has the "SCI" logo in the corner the whole time, and it's got all the hallmarks of a cable channel production, but the guy you responded to seems to think it was done by just some TH-camr small enough to read all of his comments.
This was produced long before being uploaded to youtube on July 15. They have simply done what other programs/tv channels have done. Start putting old shows, etc on youtube. The only problem is that it comes with a modern upload date, thus making it look like it was made with out of date info.
I have walked through this tunnel a couple of times. It's an old C&O tunnel on Afton Mountain between Waynesboro and Charlottesville, Virginia. The Tunnel is now part of the Blue Ridge Tunnel Trail. It goes under U.S. Route 250, Skyline Drive and Interstate 64. It is paved and a nice walk. The newer, active tunnel is right beside it.
When was this video originally made? Cause it should’ve gotten an update before being uploaded four months ago. Nothing to add that the other comments haven’t already said. I love hiking the tunnel and trail. It’s about ten min from my house.
The fact that we have to have constant, dramatic background music just to keep people interested in learning about their own history shows how infantile we’ve become.
Mysteries of The Abandoned reality series always show very fascinating stories of the Abandoned is the best reality series on cable tv. Love this reality series.
Its always either a mine or a military bunker or a rr tunnel. Glad to know it has been transformed into a trail. Bring back some life into these pieces of history. Like how its mentioned built with sweat blood and tears. Its why it only took 7 yrs. Now a days with government and politics , even with modern engineering and machinery it would take longer if at all.
Most likely built by wpa cause my grandfather worked for actually called works progress administration which was building roads dams and other projects my grandfather told me about working on roads around 35 or 36 those jobs my grandfather got was cause in severed during WWI for the army and told me he did some word at the turn conowingo dam
to couch everything in the ridiculous, "Oh so mysterious," scientists baffled, bla, bla, bla, please stop that!! please, give us a historical perspective from the records and stop the mystery nonsense. There is no mystery here!
"Most people you see are just sleepwalking through their roles, absent from their own lives. They’re fully in character and don’t know any other way.” -- Jed McKenna
Sure....unless you're into historic engineering projects. Or mathematics is your thing. What bores 1 person will fascinate another, don't ever impose your sense of interest on others.
@bryanparkhurst17 and what one person loves, drives other people crazy because this video is so obnoxiously over dramatized. I had been to the tunnel before it was refurbished and turned into a hiking trail. This video is ridiculous!
This is such an antiquated video. I’ve been through it. It has been restored and is now a walking and biking trail. Take a light if you go!
Lovely to see Afton Mtn. interchange in relief. US Hwy 250, I 64, and the Blue Ridge Parkway in one shot. The tunnel construction preceded Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite by decades.
My niece took violin lessons in Crozet.
I've been through this abandoned train tunnel many times- this video makes a whole lot out of nothing mysterious at all.
@@scottlawson9206 my greatest complaint of this series is the experts feigning mystery...
This is a tourist attraction you can walk through now. You can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it feels like you are never going to reach it walking through. It’s a very long strait tunnel.
It took about 7 years to complete. Under todays leadership it would take 30 years 😂
So the wall has been removed so you can walk through from one end to the other?
@@JackDecker63 yes. It has parking on both sides and you can drive up there and hike through it with a flashlight.
@@brianroscher6287 Thanks for info!
Great to know. Thank you.
@@JackDecker63 Yes you can but plan to get wet at least your feet. There is quite a bit of water leaking through the walls in places but it a very neat experience so give it a look. Also as others have said bring flash lights!!!
I love it how the narrator and the people being interviewed just toss adjectives around. Am I the only person that saw that the tunnel entrances were nowhere near crumbling?
This is absolutely amazing!
The walls inside the tunnel that the gas company installed are now gone and it's a nature walk/bike trail. It's been renovated back to its original state, old bricks repaired etc.
They fixed up and opened this tunnel to the public in 2020. The tunnel, the trail, and the parking areas on either side are in very good condition…. The narration is years out of sync with the current situation. I hiked through it on 8/1/2024.
So where is this? It reminds me of the old L&N tunnels north of Kennesaw, Ga., one long abandoned, the other in use.
@@tomt9543 Afton Virginia…. 17 miles west of Charlottesville.
This information is woefully outdated. The tunnel is now open end-to-end and is part of a hiking/biking trail.
I didn't know about this place. Thank you.
It's a park now. Can walk through it.
Great stuff
Dude your info and pictures are old. You need to do some on ground research before making a video. This location is a tourist attraction it’s entrances are not crumbling and there is no concrete wall. Go check it out. It’s pretty cool to see in person and it’s not trespassing so you don’t have to worry about getting into trouble.
Dude. This is a recast of an older documentary.
quit your bitchin!😡
Bro, you must be stupid. This was a show on television years ago. They are just re-uploading these videos.
@@BrianButterworth-s4z I like how it's posted on the Science Channel's page, it has the "SCI" logo in the corner the whole time, and it's got all the hallmarks of a cable channel production, but the guy you responded to seems to think it was done by just some TH-camr small enough to read all of his comments.
@@BrianButterworth-s4zthey should have explained that or updated us at the ending
we used to walk halfway through that tunnel on the Waynesboro side.
Need more tunnels even today..
Dude, you can walk the whole thing now. It’s an awesome hike. The is old.
This was produced long before being uploaded to youtube on July 15. They have simply done what other programs/tv channels have done. Start putting old shows, etc on youtube. The only problem is that it comes with a modern upload date, thus making it look like it was made with out of date info.
Why so many Brits talking about this?
I was thinking that myself
I have walked through this tunnel a couple of times. It's an old C&O tunnel on Afton Mountain between Waynesboro and Charlottesville, Virginia. The Tunnel is now part of the Blue Ridge Tunnel Trail. It goes under U.S. Route 250, Skyline Drive and Interstate 64. It is paved and a nice walk. The newer, active tunnel is right beside it.
Blue Ridge parkway there not Skyling Drive yet
When was this video originally made? Cause it should’ve gotten an update before being uploaded four months ago. Nothing to add that the other comments haven’t already said. I love hiking the tunnel and trail. It’s about ten min from my house.
The fact that we have to have constant, dramatic background music just to keep people interested in learning about their own history shows how infantile we’ve become.
Mysteries of The Abandoned reality series always show very fascinating stories of the Abandoned is the best reality series on cable tv. Love this reality series.
Its always either a mine or a military bunker or a rr tunnel. Glad to know it has been transformed into a trail. Bring back some life into these pieces of history. Like how its mentioned built with sweat blood and tears. Its why it only took 7 yrs. Now a days with government and politics , even with modern engineering and machinery it would take longer if at all.
Absurdly over dramatic. Really people, calm down. It’s just a tunnel.
I can listen to Roma all day.
Somebody needs to take the wall down.
You know what a mountain is??
Were they storing natural gas in the tunnel at some point?
The people commenting in the video have no clue😂😂😂😂
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Annoying video that ends abruptly without a satisfactory ending
Skipper??
Indeed a waste of time to learn a waste of time .
Definitely haunted!
Most likely built by wpa cause my grandfather worked for actually called works progress administration which was building roads dams and other projects my grandfather told me about working on roads around 35 or 36 those jobs my grandfather got was cause in severed during WWI for the army and told me he did some word at the turn conowingo dam
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background music drove me away
Looks like it's going to be an old train tunnel
to couch everything in the ridiculous, "Oh so mysterious," scientists baffled, bla, bla, bla, please stop that!! please, give us a historical perspective from the records and stop the mystery nonsense. There is no mystery here!
The narration is so over the top it's hard to watch seriously. The 90's vibe is so bad in this. 2 minutes in and it's boring already.
I been there. My understanding is that the Confederacy hid their ammo there. I could be wrong dunno !!
Jackson used it to move troops. Not far from it is the Mt. Tory furnace, blown up and rebuilt during the Civil War.
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This video is BS. This tunnel is open to the public and can be walked end to end. By the way, granite is an igneous rock.
StREtCHING "4,200.64" ft. ???
America is imperial, not metric!
Approx 3.3 ft per meter.
So aboot 1.25 km.
It's actually 4,273 feet long.
To slow, to much talk, and T.M.I.😢😢😢
BS pure bs.
Early🎉
Yawn...
Pure speculation.
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"Most people you see are just sleepwalking through their roles, absent from their own lives. They’re fully in character and don’t know any other way.”
-- Jed McKenna
much ado about nothing...
Sure....unless you're into historic engineering projects. Or mathematics is your thing. What bores 1 person will fascinate another, don't ever impose your sense of interest on others.
@bryanparkhurst17 and what one person loves, drives other people crazy because this video is so obnoxiously over dramatized. I had been to the tunnel before it was refurbished and turned into a hiking trail. This video is ridiculous!
@@bryanparkhurst17He didn't impose his interest or non interest on you. He stated his opinion. Stop whinging.