History & local legend
The Perkasie Tunnel passes beneath Landis Ridge in Bucks County. Workers excavated it with hand tools and black powder in the 1850s, and it opened in 1857. A later enlargement allowed a second track through the passage.
The local ghost story concerns an engineer who leans out of his locomotive as another train passes and is killed. He is then said to return at the controls of a phantom train, with the sound of its approach building inside the tunnel before the headless driver appears.
