{"id":3414,"date":"2026-03-18T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:42:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T04:42:59","slug":"first-railroad-tunnel-in-the-united-states-was-completed-in-1834","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3414","title":{"rendered":"First Railroad Tunnel in the United States Was Completed in 1834"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/alpo\/photosmultimedia\/images\/SBT.jpg\" alt=\"Ghost tours at Staple Bend\" width=\"202\" height=\"132\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Staple Bend Tunnel<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>First railroad tunnel in the United States was completed in 1834<\/strong>. Slightly over 900 feet in length, the Staple Bend Tunnel, located in Southwestern Pennsylvania, is rock-bored and lined in stone. Engineers needed three years to dig the tunnel. Today it is a National Historic Landmark. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/alpo\/learn\/historyculture\/staplebend.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Staple Bend Tunnel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First railroad tunnel in the United States was completed in 1834. Slightly over 900 feet in length, the Staple Bend Tunnel, located in Southwestern Pennsylvania, is rock-bored and lined in stone. Engineers needed three years to dig the tunnel. Today it is a National Historic Landmark. Children can learn more at:\u00a0Staple Bend Tunnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5395,3471,5394,60,3470],"class_list":["post-3414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5395","tag-first-railroad-tunnel-in-united-states","tag-march-18","tag-pennsylvania","tag-staple-bend-tunnel","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22099,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/22099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}