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- From: ggg9y@poe.acc.Virginia.EDU (Garth G. Groff)
- Subject: Re: Unusual tunnels?
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:48:17 GMT
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- SPIRALS
-
- Although this original thread was spiral tunnels,
- I will venture two more open spirals that I know of.
-
- Williams Loop is on the Union Pacific (former Western
- Pacific) not far from Keddie. The track winds around
- a broad valley and crosses over itself (on a short
- bridge if I remember correctly). It is a good photo
- spot, but hard to shoot in its entirity due to the
- heavy tree cover in some areas.
-
- The other is on the Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow
- Gauge Railroad in Felton. This is/was a tight spiral
- with a trestle over a another trestle. Several years
- back an arsonist burned the trestles and the line
- substituted a steep switchback. It has been about
- 17 years since I was there, so I don't know if the
- line was ever restored.
-
- ~S
- --
- Garth (Haridas) Groff
- "Not yet famous author"
- ggg9y@poe.acc.virginia.EDU Chant "Govinda Bohlo Hare"
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