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 Weapon X
  
Location: Around
Gender: Male
"You might remember that 'annoyed' is my natural state"
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<Reply # 1 on 3/2/2011 12:38 AM >
|  | | | hey pretty neat I love kickin' about on the tracks. Be careful tho' I got hit with a piece of metal a train kicked up once adding a decent battle-scar to my collection.
"Ya know.... if I were born a few decades earlier I'd probably be locked in an asylum instead of sneaking into them" :D |
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Waltzing Cadaver
Location: Western MA
Gender: Male
zombie head 2
| | | Re: Train Tunnel in North Western MA
<Reply # 2 on 3/2/2011 2:14 AM >
| | | | hey thanks for the advice, i was thinking they might kick something up.
have you been to the the one in charlemont?
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Radio2600
  
Location: On the Road to Wellville
HY KAK TO TAK
| | Re: Train Tunnel in North Western MA
<Reply # 3 on 3/2/2011 3:22 AM >
| | | | Oh cool.
The sign with the "G" on it is called a "grade disk".
It's attached to a signal which when the signal displays stop, tells the train that they don't have to stop, but can proceed at restricted speed past the signal if the train meets a certain tonnage to horsepower ratio. The reason for this is that the track grade is steep enough that if trains over a tonnage to horsepower ratio may not get started again if they come to a complete stop.
I don't know if the signaling is still active on that line or not though. I have the engineering blueprints and other docs for that line in my collection.
Did you find the vent shaft in the middle? There's a fan plant at the top of the vent shaft. It's fairly easy to find on the surface.
Takes guts to walk that tunnel. Good work!
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Waltzing Cadaver
Location: Western MA
Gender: Male
zombie head 2
| | | Re: Train Tunnel in North Western MA
<Reply # 6 on 3/7/2011 11:34 PM >
| | | | hey thanks man it looks pretty sweet
what exactly am i looking at here?
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Radio2600
Location: On the Road to Wellville
HY KAK TO TAK
| | Re: Train Tunnel in North Western MA
<Reply # 7 on 3/8/2011 3:15 AM >
| | | | Posted by Waking Cadaver
hey thanks man it looks pretty sweet
what exactly am i looking at here?
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The engineering drawing for the tunnel you were in.
Shows the elevations, alignment, signal locations and general track layout.
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JimBoylan
 
Location: SouthEast Pennsylvania, U. S. of A.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Train Tunnel in North Western MA
<Reply # 8 on 3/9/2011 3:38 PM >
| | | | Thanks for sharing the drawing.
I visited that tunnel many times in the 1970s and 1980s. There is a side room with brick walls near the top of the grade, under the Central Air Shaft. We would paint our initials and the date on a brick each time we visited. Are those notes still visible?
On the South side of the East Portal, you can see where they 1st tried digging the tunnel with a machine. It broke after a few feet, and they tried again with hand drills in the location you walked through. That unused portal was an abandoned garage or storeroom in the early 1970s, but the doors completely rotted away by the 1980s.
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Radio2600
Location: On the Road to Wellville
HY KAK TO TAK
| | Re: Train Tunnel in North Western MA
<Reply # 9 on 3/10/2011 4:10 AM >
| | | | Posted by JimBoylan
Thanks for sharing the drawing.
I visited that tunnel many times in the 1970s and 1980s. There is a side room with brick walls near the top of the grade, under the Central Air Shaft. We would paint our initials and the date on a brick each time we visited. Are those notes still visible?
On the South side of the East Portal, you can see where they 1st tried digging the tunnel with a machine. It broke after a few feet, and they tried again with hand drills in the location you walked through. That unused portal was an abandoned garage or storeroom in the early 1970s, but the doors completely rotted away by the 1980s.
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Anything look familiar?
In order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind. |
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JimBoylan
Location: SouthEast Pennsylvania, U. S. of A.
Gender: Male
| | Re: Train Tunnel in North Western MA
<Reply # 10 on 3/10/2011 1:54 PM >
| | | | Thanks for sharing, that's the room.
In the 3rd photo, "DGR 1978" is close to the style we used; white paint with about a 1/2 inch brush 1 brick high. Our initials were DG and JB, and (I think) just the 2 digit year, or the full date, like 6-17-75. I think we painted on the wall to the left of the doorway.
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