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WMRA's Books and Brews to highlight Blue Ridge Tunnel : Augusta Free Press


WMRA’s Books and Brews to highlight Blue Ridge Tunnel
Published Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, 12:08 am
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The Eastern Portal of the Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel Trail. Photo courtesy Jack Looney.
WMRA’s Books & Brews will feature on Wednesday,  Jan. 27, at 3 p.m., Mary Lyons, author of The Blue Ridge Tunnel: A Remarkable Engineering Feat in Antebellum Virginia, joined by a small panel, discussing the history and use of the newly reopened Blue Ridge Tunnel and Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel Trail system. ....

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WOYM: Railroad tunnel through the Blue Ridge has some fighting Irish in its history


By Ray Cox
Special to The Roanoke Times
An unspoken founding principle of this newspaper is it is always a good time to tell a railroad story.
Such being so, we turn again to esteemed historian John R. Hildebrand, our conductor on previous excursions on the long defunct but never forgotten Valley Railroad.
Hidebrand utilized an engineering background and his natural storytelling gifts to detail the history of the never finished line from Staunton to Salem in his 2001 “Iron Horses in the Valley: The Valley and Shenandoah Valley Railroads, 1866-1882.”
Therein, he detailed an episode of criminal misbehavior that had taken place during an earlier railroad-building era involving construction of the Virginia Central from Charlottesville to Covington. Known at the time as the “Irish Rebellion,” the Feb. 11, 1850, episode involved a violent labor dispute pitting workers from different regions in Ireland. ....

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