BGuthrie Photos: MD -- Sideling Hill Exhibit Center, now Rest Area

MD -- Sideling Hill Exhibit Center, now Rest Area:

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Description of Pictures: I didn't know it but the exhibit hall closed three years ago for fiscal reasons.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIDE_120803_18.JPG: The exhibition center closed several years ago for budget reasons
2. SIDE_120803_28.JPG: Dedicated to the memory of Victor Cushwa October 22, 1924 - August 19, 1991 State Senator 1977-1990 Maryland Public Service Commissioner 1990-1991
3. SIDE_120803_40.JPG: Odd sign. It indicates the Exhibit Center is open. The hours used to have summer and winter hours, with 9 to 5 being the winter hours. The summer hours went until 6pm. Of course it's not open at all now.
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Wikipedia Description: Sideling Hill
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Sideling Hill is part of the Allegheny Mountains of the Appalachian Mountain Range (also considered part of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians). It traverses West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania and rises to its highest elevation of 2,301 feet (616 m) in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.

Road cut:

The Sideling Hill road cut is a 340-foot deep road cut where Interstate 68 cuts through Sideling Hill, about 6 miles west of Hancock in Washington County, Maryland. It is notable as an impressive man-made mountain pass, visible from miles away and is considered one of the best rock exposures in Maryland and the entire northeastern United States. Almost 810 feet of strata in a tightly folded syncline are exposed in this road cut. Although other exposures may surpass Sideling Hill in either thickness of exposed strata or in quality of geologic structure, few can equal its combination of both. There is an Exhibit Center to help provide the public with a better understanding of the geology of the cut. A pedestrian walkway bridge crosses I-68 for better access to the cut, along with a picnic area and rest area facilities.

Tunnel:

A tunnel through Sideling Hill is currently in its third phase of life. In the 1880s, a tunnel was partially bored through the mountain near Breezewood, Pennsylvania by the South Pennsylvania Railroad. The railroad project ceased, and the tunnel was left abandoned. When the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission began constructing the Pennsylvania Turnpike on the right-of-way of the old South Pennsylvania Railroad in the 1930s, the tunnel was completed.

The tunnel, which, at 6,782 feet, was the longest of the seven original turnpike tunnels, was used from the Turnpike's opening in 1940 until 1968. Due to increasing traffic on the highway, the turnpike commission began upgrading all of its two-lane tunnels. This project involved constructing twin bores for tunnels through the Allegheny, Tusc ...More...
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