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 u-2-guy
Location: Saanichton BC
Gender: Male
 |  | Re: "blue ghost tunnel" and old Welland canal
<Reply # 20 on 2/27/2011 8:27 PM >
|  | | | | Mmmm the tunnel isn't quite so long... Chop off almost a quarter of your guestimate. I have GPS co-ords for the other side of the tunnel somewhere on my computer if I can find them I'll map the other side for you. |
that would be awsome. one day ive got to get to the other side of that thing. the guestimate for the other enterance location was based entirley on what i could see from above. just for the record, i am no expert at track placement. i just like hiking along old track beds.
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rob.i.am
       
Gender: Male
Carpe noctum
| |  | Re: "blue ghost tunnel" and old Welland canal
<Reply # 21 on 2/27/2011 8:45 PM >
| | | | Posted by jerm IX
I was there 2 days ago. less than a km in to the tunnel there is a wall of icicles blocking the way.
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pics?
Or I could read through the entire thread before posting...
[last edit 2/27/2011 8:47 PM by rob.i.am - edited 1 times]
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polykan
Location: Niagara Region, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | | Re: "blue ghost tunnel" and old Welland canal
<Reply # 22 on 3/30/2011 9:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by Nvr2loud
I'm very clearly wrong about which tunnel is the Blue Ghost Tunnel. The tunnel that I recall was only 200-300 ft long at most. I'll have to check with the person who brought me there, it has been so long now 
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Yup, 200-300ft is a much more accurate estimate. I'd say you can only walk about 100ft in from the one end and the rest is flooded...
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spin
Location: Southern Ontario
Gender: Male
yuuuuuuuuuuup
| | Re: "blue ghost tunnel" and old Welland canal
<Reply # 23 on 3/31/2011 12:13 AM >
| | | | i've been here. its boring unless you go with a superstitious panzy like my roomate. "OH GOD WHY IS THAT HERE. OH GOD WHY IS THIS HERE" the cars are long gone, Completely scrapped or rotted away. I did however find a whole bunch of nothing lol.
the swing bridge is pretty cool though and theres apparently a "sunken ship" Which turned out to be spilled timber jammed in one of the abandoned locks. good times
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u-2-guy
Location: Saanichton BC
Gender: Male
| | Re: "blue ghost tunnel" and old Welland canal
<Reply # 24 on 3/31/2011 1:54 PM >
| | | | there are skutttled ships. I think the is one in that big pond thing.
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Canadavey
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Location: York Region
Gender: Male
Dehr.
| | | Re: "blue ghost tunnel" and old Welland canal
<Reply # 25 on 3/31/2011 4:08 PM >
| | | | Posted by polykan
Yup, 200-300ft is a much more accurate estimate. I'd say you can only walk about 100ft in from the one end and the rest is flooded...
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Wrong.
"The Blue Ghost Tunnel was built in the 1870s. It was constructed out of limestone blocks from a local quarry and is about 665 feet in length. The tunnel was used as a passage for the great Western Railway system up until about 1915. The tunnel provided passage under the third Welland Canal."
source: http://www.helloni...e_ghost_tunnel.php (and various books that I have that I'm too lazy to scan and post.)
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polykan
Location: Niagara Region, Ontario
Gender: Male
| | | Re: "blue ghost tunnel" and old Welland canal
<Reply # 26 on 12/31/2011 12:11 AM >
| | | | Posted by Canadavey
Wrong.
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No need to be a dick about it. I was only offering my best estimate as I knew there was no way it was a kilometer long, let alone was the flooded section that far in.
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Kairu
Location: Niagara Peninsula, ON, Canada
| | Re: "blue ghost tunnel" and old Welland canal
<Reply # 27 on 12/31/2011 5:16 AM >
| | | | Well even if this tunnel is not hat it's cracked up to be. It is still exponentially a better adventure than the "Screaming Tunnel". The Screaming Tunnel is probably the most overrated paranormal-location here.
Long story short, I'd definitely go check this tunnel out. Anyone want to join?
Système International -- It's blasphem.ous, isn't it? |
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Emperor Wang
  
Location: On an island, in a river
Fetish? What fetish?
| | Re: "blue ghost tunnel" and old Welland canal
<Reply # 28 on 1/14/2012 3:33 AM >
| | | | Some of you canal nerds ought to find this interesting. A 112-page booklet on the history of the St. Lawrence Seaway, issued a couple of years ago by the Canadian Management Corporation on the occasion of their 50th anniversary...
http://www.greatla.../pdf/Jenish_en.pdf
Starting around page 31 (or thereabouts) is an overview of the history of the Welland Canal and its related infrastructure. And starting at page 67 is a description of the failure of lock 7 in 1985 and the subsequent rehabilitation of the entire canal.
Pretty interesting stuff if you're into large-scale civil engineering projects, as I am.
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