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UER Forum > Archived US: Great Lakes > Winston Tunnel (Viewed 464 times) shotgun mario  Location: MSP Gender: Male MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member  |  |  Winston Tunnel < on 5/27/2008 3:21 AM >   Has anyone else heard of this? Apparently it is (or was) a 2500 foot tunnel, located in north western Illinois. It's been abandoned for a while, but apparently at least one of the entrances is still intact, yet gated. Here's some more info. http://en.wikipedi...iki/Winston_Tunnel Anyone know more information on it? If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public! If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet! Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies! BigMan73  Gender: Male One of my hobbies  |  |  Re: Winston Tunnel <Reply # 1 on 5/28/2008 11:21 AM >   Here is what I found for the location. N 42° 20.100 W 090° 22.400 http://www.google....=UTF8&ll=42.335707,-90.373342&spn=0.006725,0.014505&z=16&iwloc=addr shotgun mario  Location: MSP Gender: Male MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member  |  |  Re: Winston Tunnel <Reply # 2 on 5/29/2008 3:40 AM >   wow... that looks pretty cool. From what I understand, one end of the tunnel is located in a state park and gated off, and the other end is on private property, but mostly covered over. Sounds pretty interesting. Thanks a great deal for the info, and I might get some friends from Il to join me on a trip out there! If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public! If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet! Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies! Clockwork  Location: Minneapolis, MN Gender: Male I WILL KILL THIS MONKEY! I'M CRAZY!  |  |  Re: Winston Tunnel <Reply # 3 on 5/29/2008 3:33 PM >   I've been to one of the entrances of the Winston Tunnel a couple of times. It took a couple days of walking in the woods to find it initially, but seemed pretty obvious once I knew where it was. The tunnel is on an abandoned railroad line, and one of the most fascinating aspects of the tunnel is that the railroad bed is still clear of trees and the railroad ties are still in-situ. So once you figure out where the train tracks were, it's easy to follow them all the way to the tunnel entrance. Up until about a year ago, there were the ruined shells of some outbuildings right beside the tunnel entrance which originally housed tunnel watchmen and the engine that powered fans to circulate air through the tunnel. Sadly, on my last visit, it appears that they have been torn down (which is strange since they are way the fuck out in the middle of nowhere in the woods). The front tunnel entrance has a giant DNR gate on it. The first time I went there, I hand dug underneath the bars (on a cold and wet day) a hole big enough to crawl under the gate and voyage inside. Disappointingly, the tunnel was caved in a few hundred feet inside. I have never put forth enough effort to find the other tunnel entrance. It's supposedly on some private property and difficult to reach without being seen. It's also supposedly not worth the trouble, since it's pretty collapsed and not nearly as photogenic as the front entrance. Here's some pictures: Walking on the abandoned track bed: Ruined outbuildings: Winston Tunnel Entrance: Really REALLY not fun (note the ice cold mud puddle that formed at the bottom of the hole I dug): Inside the tunnel: Examining the original 1800's timbers: shotgun mario  Location: MSP Gender: Male MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member  |  |  Re: Winston Tunnel <Reply # 4 on 5/29/2008 9:29 PM >   wow. Thanks for the info and pics! Too bad to hear that it's collapsed in though... saves me the trip out there just to see it. But I'll be sure to check it out if I'm ever in the area! If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public! If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet! Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies! Clockwork  Location: Minneapolis, MN Gender: Male I WILL KILL THIS MONKEY! I'M CRAZY!  |  |  Re: Winston Tunnel <Reply # 5 on 5/30/2008 3:19 AM >   What "area" are you in, Shotgun-Mario? The Winston Tunnel itself might not be the coolest thing ever, but there are plenty of other neat things to see and explore in the general area that the Winston Tunnel is in. That's the area where I currently live. shotgun mario  Location: MSP Gender: Male MSP Elite™ Card-Carrying Member  |  |  Re: Winston Tunnel <Reply # 6 on 5/30/2008 4:05 AM >   im in a milwaukee suburb, but I've got quite a few friends in the chicago area. I'm also in the stevens point area quite a bit in the summer as well. If you want to protect the locations you love to explore, don't talk about them online in public! If you want to make exploring friends, send people private messages! Meet up in real life! Get off the internet! Don't try to have a UER e-penis! You won't impress anyone! This especially means you, Minneapolis MN newbies! UER Forum > Archived US: Great Lakes > Winston Tunnel (Viewed 464 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. 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