Hello,
I do appreciate your information about Camp McCoy as a POW camp. It was
also a very active Army base during WWII.
The CNW tunnel at Tunnel City did not collapse on a train. Individual
rocks fell on trains passing through the tunnel but no real equipment
damage. The large rock fall came between the infrequent trains on the
line. No rolling stock is trapped in the tunnel. I lived in LaCrosse at
the time and worked for the Milwaukee Road.
Ted
At 07:34 PM 10/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
a wwII german pow camp was located at "camp McCoy"
near Sparta, Wi, just east of La Crosse on Hwy 16.
Camp McCoy is located on the
Milw. Rd. and C&NW tracks just west of Tunnel City,
Wi. This is the only railroad tunnel still in use in
entire state. Parrellel C&NW tunnel collapsed on a
enroute freight train during mid 70's. leaving box
cars inside(never retreaved). East portal filled in
w/dirt, west portal face plugged w/concrete. C&NW
Tunnel City station still stands as a home. C&NW got
quick(long stansing) trackage rights on Milw. Rd. (of
course they are now UP & CP. Milw. Rd. tunnel about
1300 plus feet long single track. (CP high wided'd
during mid 90's)
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