New Backbone Rock, Oftentimes Called The World's Shortest Tunnel

Originally a rails line, the engineers decided to chop through the rocky fin rather than demolish it. Making for a rattling sparse "tunnel". Located 5 miles outside Damascus, VA, it's genuinely only across the edge inwards Tennessee.

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Backbone Rock tunnel measures alone 20 feet broad too stands seventy-five human foot high. This odd sedimentary stone formation, a ridge of the Holston Mountain inwards the Cherokee National Forest, stood inwards the agency of a educate route designed to connect Damascus too Shady Valley,Tennessee.

The cheapest solution was to boom a hole inwards the rock... but oops, they forgot to brand a hole large plenty for the smokestacks too! They paw chiseled a stone oil gap inwards the stone, too the Beaver Dam Railroad started hauling equally much equally 100,000 sawed boards daily for The Tennessee Lumber too Manufacturing Company.

By 1913 logging had played out, too operations nigh downwardly for both the lumber manufactory too the secondary manufacture of mining manganese ore. Afterwards the the U.S. of A. Forest Service used the railway work equally a truck trail, too it eventually became Earth route 133