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The Claudius Crozet Blue Ridge Tunnel
Central Virginia hides a train tunnel you can walk straight through.
The Blue Ridge Tunnel cuts under Afton Mountain near Rockfish Gap, running 4,273 feet end to end, close to eight-tenths of a mile. Trains rumbled through here for decades.
Today the crushed-stone trail stretches about 2.25 miles from one trailhead to the other, and instead of a locomotive, you’re the one making all the noise…