Share your tunnel shots here Will kick it off with this shot at Oakdale TN - NS Tunnel 25 - Late 80's.
Tunnels! A great theme for a thread @BNSF FAN. From 10/18/1994 at Falls Cut Tunnel on Sandpatch in PA between Fairhope and Foley.
Action at Gallitzin Tunnel, the PRR's summit of the Alleghenies. The first at the east portal in July 1980 with SD-45s shoving hard and the other in April 1989 at the west portal with SD-45-2s leading. This bore has since been closed, with NS widening the adjacent Allegheny Tunnel to two tracks. At the time of the first photo, evidence of the PRR's fan system to evacuate the bores of smoke remained in place at the east portal of Allegheny Tunnel.
Outstanding pictures of Gallitzin. At the time of its mothballing, the track was left inside, in case it needed to be returned to service quickly.
Thank you. Oh, that's quite smart leaving the track intact. I didn't know that. It's bricked up now from what I see in photos.
Last time that I was there was 1998, and I think at that time the west portal was still open. Maybe next year when I'm out for the Altoona N Scale Weekend I'll try to get up there.
From March 1990 at remote Nemo TN, old Tunnel 24 on the Rathole. A motel desk clerk said we could drive through it, so we did in our l'l Mitsubishi mini-minivan following a Jeep with teenagers and a lightbar leading the way.
The B&O's Point Of Rocks Tunnel in MD, enlarged for double track in 1902. I think it was in the 1960s that the B&O single-tracked the tunnel for improved clearance and swung the other track around the edge of the mountain just to the left. Photo from 1911:
On the C&O main at Hilldale, WV (near Talcott) are two tunnels close by one another, Big Bend opened in 1932 and Great Bend opened in 1873, improved over the years and closed in 1974. These pictures were taken in October 1994. We waited a while hoping for a train, but none appeared. A historic marker and statue of railroad legend John Henry is nearby. Big Bend: Great Bend:
Two from March 1995 on the former N&W main in WV, the first at Welch and the other at Davy. We'd driven there in my 2WD pickup, hardly thinking of snow.
Hoosac Tunnel east portal, photo from 70-ish years ago, shows the original, 1875 bore, to the left. I was told that one of the senior civil engineers on the project was my great uncle for whom I was named. I rode through that Tunnel on the eastbound B&M Minute Man, #6000, Budd 1935, in October 1952.
Boeing 737 fuselage westbound on the Montana Rail Link entering the Bozeman Tunnel on Bozeman Pass at Muir, Montana - October 14, 2002.
The real question would be is that the light at the end of the tunnel or a train about to run us down?
