An official of the Central Railroad of New Jersey indicated the railroad must be interested in selling its tunnel under the Hauto Mountain between Lansford and Nesquehoning.

Known as the No. 7 Tunnel, it was recently blocked off by the railroad with wire fencing.

During the course of the conversation about blocking off the tunnel for the first time since it was completed by the Lehigh Navigation Coal Co. in 1872, B. Minetti, CRNJ’s chief engineer, said the company might be interested in selling the tunnel should the Carbon County Recreation Authority want to acquire it so as to rehabilitate it for the purpose of conveying passengers through it, a concept mentioned in the Open Space Recreation Study of the county planning commission.