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 Porcelain Doll
     
Location: philadelphia
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 |  |  | Re: Schools and trains from my weekend 11/3/13
<Reply # 20 on 11/10/2013 2:22 AM >
|  | | | Posted by Radical_Ed
On retrospect, it probably would've been smarter to park near the exit and take those photos instead of going through the tunnel. Now knowing the train only travels 15 miles per hour and the tunnel was designed for two set of tracks gives me the peace of mind that if a train did come, I may not have died. Before traveling the tunnel, I had no idea where it led. If you can get a time table for the train that DOES use this, you could probably take some amazing photos with a real camera, tripod and your lighting skills. It's dead-black for most of the tunnel. The tunnels 1920's construction though is amazing and extremely photogenic. There were some sleeping crackheads on the bridge above the 1921 stone though, so bring someone with you.
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I might have to check it out one day me and southshore have a day off together, we both want to go back to the viaduct again.
it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
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Radical_Ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gender: Male
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| | Re: Schools and trains from my weekend 11/3/13
<Reply # 21 on 11/10/2013 4:12 AM >
| | | | The Reading Viaduct was fun. I was up on it a couple of times when the rails were still there and followed it all the way from Vine to Fairmount, where it dead ends. I was also in a couple of the buildings along it's route that opened to it, but never the Spring Garden train station, which was a major location of contention for me. I would've loved to see the interior of that. I always entered the tracks by hopping the fence at 10th & Buttonwood. There's an insane crackhead colony full of heroin addicts under the bridge at Spring Garden so again, bring someone. The layer of discarded syringes and crack vials under there can be measured with a ruler, no shit.
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Here's the BING for where the CSX tunnel comes out from the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance.
http://binged.it/1aM30aM
If you float around the area you can see where it separates underground from the original Reading tunnel. You can plainly see the giant ventilation grates along Penn. Ave where the tunnel runs underneath. You can also pick up the Reading tunnel again in the parking lot between Hamilton and Pennsylvania Avenue at 20th Street. No more tracks for a few blocks but you can still see the Reading Wall.
http://binged.it/1dbz6KM
If you follow the Reading tracks (or where they "should" be) along the BING map all the way east along the wall, it leads to the branch of the viaduct itself where the power station is near 12th and Pearl (Goldtex). When I first discovered this, I was elated. It's all attached and most excellent for an awesome local history lesson.
[last edit 11/10/2013 12:54 PM by Radical_Ed - edited 1 times]
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