Re: Rock tunnel trestle
| January 02, 2011 04:39PM |
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wt fan Wrote:
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> I'm looking for pictures from the Rock Tunnel trestle ...
Hi, Wolfgang -
Here's one taken last year from the train just as it passed over the rock shelf which replaced the trestle at the west portal of Toltec Tunnel #2. IIRC, the river is well over 600 feet below the rails:
And here's one taken a mile or so west, looking southeast into Toltec Gorge. The tunnel itself is out of the picture to the upper left:
Happy New Year!
- Rüssell der Verückter
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> I'm looking for pictures from the Rock Tunnel trestle ...
Hi, Wolfgang -
Here's one taken last year from the train just as it passed over the rock shelf which replaced the trestle at the west portal of Toltec Tunnel #2. IIRC, the river is well over 600 feet below the rails:
And here's one taken a mile or so west, looking southeast into Toltec Gorge. The tunnel itself is out of the picture to the upper left:
Happy New Year!
- Rüssell der Verückter
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