page_title: Board Tree Tunnel
hierarchical_section_title: Board Tree Tunnel
caption_attribution_description: English: South portal of the Board Tree Tunnel, Marshall County, West Virginia, USA Français&#160;: Portail sud du tunnel de Board Tree, comté de Marshall, Virginie-Occidentale, États-Unis
context_page_description: The Board Tree Tunnel, near Littleton, West Virginia, was built between 1851 and 1858 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on its main line between Baltimore, Maryland, and Wheeling, West Virginia, under the supervision of B&O chief engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II. The 2,350-foot tunnel used a segmental cast iron lining system pioneered on the contemporaneous Kingwood Tunnel on the same line.
  Workers were recruited from coal mines in the area to excavate the tunnel. The tunneling operations used black powder as explosive. About 30 deaths and 300 injuries occurred in the excavation of the Board Tree and Kingwood tunnels. The tunnel is now abandoned.
context_section_description: The Board Tree Tunnel, near Littleton, West Virginia, was built between 1851 and 1858 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on its main line between Baltimore, Maryland, and Wheeling, West Virginia, under the supervision of B&O chief engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II. The 2,350-foot (720 m) tunnel used a segmental cast iron lining system pioneered on the contemporaneous Kingwood Tunnel on the same line.
  Workers were recruited from coal mines in the area to excavate the tunnel. The tunneling operations used black powder as explosive. About 30 deaths and 300 injuries occurred in the excavation of the Board Tree and Kingwood tunnels. The tunnel is now abandoned.
caption: South portal of Board Tree Tunnel in 1974
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