Documentary on Blue Ridge Tunnel to be available soon Documentary on Blue Ridge Tunnel to be available soon By Patrick Huddleston | March 4, 2021 at 4:30 PM EST - Updated March 4 at 6:39 PM NELSON COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - A new documentary on theBlue Ridge Railroad Tunnel is set to premier on YouTube March 17. The film was produced and directed by Charlottesville couple Paul and Ellen Casey Wagner. The Tunnel tells the story of how the Blue Ridge Tunnel was first built by the Irish between 1850 and 1858, and how it was restored between 2002 and 2021. The immigrants who fled the famine in Ireland to seek work in America make up the center of the story. The work was dangerous and many men and boys were injured or killed as a result of cave-ins and explosions in the tunnel.