the only real tunnel I can think of is at East Debuque
a.k.a East Cabin on the Illinios Central. This tunnel
has a tight curve in it. The 5632 did a photo runby
thru it once that I know of, seem slides of it and
have it on recording(record). There is a tunnel of
sorts in St. Paul on the NP under GN's Westminster. it
was used by the Q transfer runs. It is short(only a
few hundred feet long. Soo Line also had a tunnel in
the same area doing the same thing. -CY-
mack <mack@c...> wrote:
> The mention in a recent post by Cy Svobodny about
> the tunnels in
> Wisconsin on the Milw and C&NW got me to thinking.
> Where, if
> anywhere, did the Q run through tunnels on Lines
> East, particularly
> Illinois, Wisconsin, or Minnesota? Reason: On my
> layout I have a
> rather conspicuous cutoff to staging that I
> originally designed to be
> hidden inside a tunnel (just haven't gotten the
> mountain built yet).
> Although I don't really didn't have a geographical
> area in mind when
> I started my layout, I am leaning toward the
> Illinois, Wisconsin,
> Minnesota area so I can: 1) run my coal train with
> 3-4 SD7's from
> Illinois coal area to a powerplant up north (ala the
> Wisconsin Power
> unit trains); 2) interchange with C&NW and/or Milw
> so I can run some
> Baldwins, Alcos, and F-M's on interchange and
> transfers. My time era
> is 1967-68.
>
> I realize I certainly have modeler's freedom here,
> but the mention of
> the tunnels in Wisconsin got me to thinking.
>
> Tom Mack
>
>
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