As every Sunday driver knows, U. S. roads have not kept pace with U. S. cars. Motorists long for high-speed roadways—without steep hills, sharp turns, crossroads, bottlenecks. This week, with the opening of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, some of them got what they wanted.
Gospel-minded localry call the Pennsylvania Turnpike "the glory road." For 160 miles between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh it stabs through the Appalachians, piercing ridge after ridge in a series of spectacular tunnels. These seven tunnels, part of Andrew Carnegie's half-built South Penn Railroad, were just what the engineer ordered.
The longest...
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