briansilvermustang posted:nmp...
I remember when Steamtown was being moved from Bellows Falls, VT to Scranton,PA Big Boy 4012 was squeezed through that tunnel!
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briansilvermustang posted:nmp...
I remember when Steamtown was being moved from Bellows Falls, VT to Scranton,PA Big Boy 4012 was squeezed through that tunnel!
that had to be a COOL sight to see !!!
Here's the Moonville tunnel
And the Grafton tunnel
My 4 year old grandson loves the rock but I'm not digging it yet....
Paul
out of a tunnel and onto a bridge in the Swiss Alps...
I have a 9 tunnels all have LED lights in them. Here is a few of them.
May have got carried away with building them.lol
I even have tunnels for highways.
Larry
Some great Tunnels! Are most of the Portals store bought or are they home made?
Paul R,
The new PCRR Train Room has a 14' Tunnel made from the actual Bar, it's working out really well. Note the far right entrance on the lower platform, the actual Bar made for a nice big long Tunnel.
PCRR/Dave
This is the Musconectcong/Jugtown/Pattenburg tunnel in West Portal New Jersey during construction in the 40s. Along with some other pictures of it when it was used for revenue systems. The tunnel was used by the Lehigh Valley and was created to replace the original tunnel with became too small for larger trains. The tunnel was double tracked but in the 90s was single tracked in the middle so Conrail could fit intermodal down it. Finally in today's time NS uses the tunnel on the Lehigh line and anyone who rode the 2016 Amtrak Autum express would've passed through it.
Here's the real Moonville tunnel, it's part of an abandon rail line near Beaver Creek Ohio.
Paul
During the 2nd World War, Allied air forces were directed to not bomb any castles when over Germany. Because of this, Hitler ordered all rail road tunnels to be disguised with turrets and other "castle" type structures.
Wow, Paul, there was/is an actual "Moonville"? I had no idea. However, I named my layout "Moon Township." Thanks a lot for those photos!
FrankM, Moon's son
Moonson posted:Wow, Paul, there was/is an actual "Moonville"? I had not idea. However, I named my layout "Moon Township." Thanks a lot for those photos!
FrankM, Moon's son
Thanks Frank, you know the best part, the tunnel is haunted. From the stories I was told a young girl was struck by the vary train she was waiting for near the tunnel and a brakeman was tragically killed while on the roof of a caboose when it entered the tunnel.
I was a Scoutmaster for 10 years and we took our Boy Scout troop to Beaver Creek State Park on a weekend camping trip then hiked to the Moonville tunnel which actually was named after a small mining town close by. All that remains of the town are foundation stones and partial brick walls laying in the undergrowth. It was very fun to walk around and imagine what it must have been like to live in a very small town literally built around the tracks, some of the building foundations were within 20 feet of the railway. It's something I'll never forget.
Never saw a ghost though.....
Paul
RDGCO.Productions posted:
When my friend bobby goes to Pittsburgh to college I more or less borrow it from him. I have another custom painted C420 in Tuscan and until I get a second C420 or another LV diesel I'll be borrowing his.
WBG PETE, I am so very glad to see you sharing your handsome layout here. I remember it well from photos you shared on another forum, and always thought every view of the layout was totally enjoyable. I hope you will continue to show us more of that exceptional, beautiful layout you had.
FrankM
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