The second longest railroad tunnel in Arizona is on the Grand Canyon Railway in Williams (mile post 1.3) where it passes under the Santa Fe (BNSF). Note the guard rails.
Mark
Boy ya sure would be gagging and choking by the time you got through that baby.[(-D]
What’s up with what looks like cables going through on each side? Is that angle iron supporting them?
Brent
Okay, what’s the longest? I think it would be the tunnel on the Verde Valley tourist line.
Don’t know. The “second longest” is what the parlor-car steward claimed. I have doubts. Since the “tunnel” is the result of the ATSF building a fill to pass over the Grand Canyon Railway, I’m not sure this should be defined as a tunnel.
Mark
I’d define it as a culvert. As for the cables, they look like slide fences, and would probably set red signals on the BNSF if anything impacted the sidewalls. They’re more usually seen in cuts, where falling rock might get onto the rails.
If that’s the second-longest in Arizona, then the longest must be where I-10 overpasses the old SP line just uphill from Benson, Obviously, Arizona wasn’t much for tunnels.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with LOTS of tunnels)