Pikeville: the city that moved the mountain

Pikeville: the city that moved the mountain

Categories: North America

The town of Pikeville is located in the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky. There are only less than 7 thousand people living there — however, they may be the most important people on the planet.

It infuriated them that they had to wait at a railway crossing while coal wagons spitting black dust passed by. They were infuriated that their Levisa Fork River overflowed its banks every year and flooded their city. So they decided to undertake the largest project in the entire Western Hemisphere to move the earth, second only to the Great Boston Tunnel and the Panama Canal.

Residents of the city of Pikeville razed the mountain and created a kilometer-long tunnel 400 meters wide called the Pikeville glade. They let a four-lane highway, railway tracks and a river through the tunnel. Thanks to a federal grant of $77.6 million, these seven thousand residents now do not breathe coal and keep their feet dry all year round.

(6 photos in total)

Pikeville: the city that moved the mountain Source: amusingplanet.com

Pikeville: the city that moved the mountain

1.

Pikeville: the city that moved the mountain

2.

Pikeville: the city that moved the mountain

3.

Pikeville: the city that moved the mountain

4.

Pikeville: the city that moved the mountain

5.

Pikeville: the city that moved the mountain

6.

Keywords: City | Mountains

Post News Article

Recent articles

Scandalous erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt
Scandalous erotic drawings by Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was born on July 14, 1862. He was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most famous participants of the Vienna ...

20 simple but ingenious solutions that it would be implemented everywhere
20 simple but ingenious solutions that it would be ...

Man is so constituted that gets used to small inconveniences and am more inclined to accept them than to change something. Although ...

World attractions from an unusual angle
World attractions from an unusual angle

Surely you have already seen the most famous sights of the world in all their beauty and historical grandeur. And, perhaps, seen ...

Related articles

Plaster-beauty is not a hindrance: rare photos of Marilyn Monroe on crutches
Plaster-beauty is not a hindrance: rare photos of Marilyn ...

The fatal beauty Marilyn Monroe was and will be a model of femininity and sexuality. Nothing can overshadow the image of a blonde ...

30 unique views of old Paris
30 unique views of old Paris

Paris is an amazing and magical city, with streets on both banks of the Seine. Its historical center has been developing for many ...

How the "City of the Dead" appeared in the Dargava Gorge, where the bravest do not go at dusk
How the "City of the Dead" appeared in the Dargava Gorge, ...

There are many mysterious places covered with legends on the world map. There are also truly mystical ones among them, where a ...