 The Brookville Tunnel ( also Brooksville Tunnel ) was a historic railroad tunnel engineered by Claudius Crozet during the construction of the Blue Ridge Railroad in the 1850s . The tunnel was part of a series of four tunnels used to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia for the Virginia Central Railroad of the United States . The Brookville Tunnel was the second tunnel used to cross the mountains from the east ( the easternmost being the Greenwood Tunnel ) , and was located approximately 1 @.@ 5 miles ( 2 @.@ 4 km ) west of the village of Greenwood , Virginia . 
