This is a shot that is in my wallpaper selection, whenever I see the giant culvert with a train going in, I wonder what happens if there's a storm on the other side. 
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It becomes a submarine
Maybe it’s one of those time warp wormholes. Loco goes in this side as a diesel and comes out the other side a steam locomotive...🤔
Curt
@gunrunnerjohn posted:This is a shot that is in my wallpaper selection, whenever I see the giant culvert with a train going in, I wonder what happens if there's a storm on the other side.
No difference than going through the 7.9 mile long Cascade Tunnel on the former Great Northern Cascade Mountain main line (now BNSF). No matter which direction you are going, you don't know what will be happening on the other end.
maybe inside the tunnel is where the aliens are hiding!????????
Most missed the joke, it looks like a giant drain pipe. 
@gunrunnerjohn posted:Most missed the joke, it looks like a giant drain pipe.
Well, in more than 50 years of being on the headend of all sorts of trains, throughout the United States and Mexico, and have been through numerous types of tunnels, culverts, and very deep canyons/cuts, so I suppose I missed the humor.
Modern railroads at least listen to the US Weather Service or WeTher Channel. Some hire pirvate weather services. If a section of line is forecast to get flooding conditions, the line is observed, and if too much water, shut down. In case of tropical weather, the are going to be hit is shut down, and if possible movable items such as locomotives get moved.
But I do see something in the picture. The lining of the tunnel does look like metal culverts on droids. So maybe that was the angle the OP was thinking about as he created the post.
One of the tunnels, Great Allegheny Passage, Bike/hike trail, near Rockwood, PA., was rehabilitated with a tunnel liner like the one pictured.
@Dominic Mazoch posted:But I do see something in the picture. The lining of the tunnel does look like metal culverts on droids. So maybe that was the angle the OP was thinking about as he created the post.
That was exactly my point. It looks like the drainage ditch up the street, just super-sized. It just struck me as funny. 
Google sourced dictionary says a culvert is a tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railroad. I get the humor.
Well - I wondered where it was - did look odd, or unusual, to me. The location is near Sorrento, British Columbia, as the track goes under a road - it's a short tunnel or culvert.
https://www.google.com/maps/@5...w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Here's a link to the image the pic was cropped from:
David
THANKS for the link to the location of that "culvert" tunnel. A very interesting engineering adaption!
