Interstate 80 Pennsylvania

Scotrun 298 Exit is at the bottom, after the 80 - 380 split.
That's where the on ramp puts you out into the hammer lane,
with trucks going 80 plus trying to play pinball with the newly injected cars doing 50.
Yes, it is one real man sized hill, going up or down it. Always burning brake smell thru there.
In between the fills for lanes going each way got the name "Devil's bathtub" from crews that built it.
On the downhill 80 East lanes, a armored car went way, way down the bank and smashed open,
I never saw so many cops in one place; looked like a Dunkin Donuts sale.
They did account for every last gold bar. (Darn it.)

 

I wonder about those stories sometimes.

IF all that gold split open with gaurds too busy hurting, unconsious or dead... a couple of them bars would eliminate many things in life.

I-80 in PA was more of a speed problem than anything for me. With the special attention paid to Milesburg. Its not much of a hill, but it is quite a hill. 10 miles of fun.

 

I just looked up the armored car crash referenced above;
'cause I was going to copy/paste it back in here.
I tried searching it several ways, it wouldn't come up.
Was in the early 80's just after highway was built.
I'm gonna ask the owner of the tow company that did the recovery
if he kept any pictures; it was kind of a big deal back then.

It isn't the length of this hill, its so steep in a short distance, you pick up speed,
and the challenge of the lanes having to be filled in between two hills,
for about a half mile to construct the roadbed.