WIP screenshots of the B&M Hoosac Tunnel East Portal. ---- UPDATED 12/10/2015
This is a bit of the Hoosac Tunnel route which will be made into a video for the Western Gateway Heritage State Park exhibit Steamboateng is working on for the organization. http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dc...tern-gateway-heritage-state-park-generic.html. I've been involved on a less than everyday basis now as it's best for only one person to edit the route and maintain that feeling that has been invoked. Instead I have moved on to another project, which is very much related, however, a separate entity.
That said, here are some work in progress screenshots taken by Steamboateng of the Boston and Maine and a bit of the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington, aka Hoot Toot & Whistle, or better known as the "Hold Tight & Worry", at the B&M wye. The route is far from complete and still needs the tunnel installed, catenary and other major details. Once the east side is completed and video-created, Mike will move on to the more complex West Portal where the line continued, and still does today, to North Adams yard and the junction with the Boston and Albany. The line is still in use today, albeit very much trimmed down. The catenary was de-energized in the late 1940s, and the wires came down shortly after that. In the 1950s the track was reduced to what it is today, a single track through the tunnel with some long passing sidings leading up on the east side. The once very large joint NYC/B&A and B&M yard in North Adams, is nothing more than a double-track with a rusty siding, and the B&A branch from Pittsfield, MA is nothing more than a stub-ended branch which ends in Zilonite at a limestone quarry, and a very weeded over one at that.






This is a bit of the Hoosac Tunnel route which will be made into a video for the Western Gateway Heritage State Park exhibit Steamboateng is working on for the organization. http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dc...tern-gateway-heritage-state-park-generic.html. I've been involved on a less than everyday basis now as it's best for only one person to edit the route and maintain that feeling that has been invoked. Instead I have moved on to another project, which is very much related, however, a separate entity.
That said, here are some work in progress screenshots taken by Steamboateng of the Boston and Maine and a bit of the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington, aka Hoot Toot & Whistle, or better known as the "Hold Tight & Worry", at the B&M wye. The route is far from complete and still needs the tunnel installed, catenary and other major details. Once the east side is completed and video-created, Mike will move on to the more complex West Portal where the line continued, and still does today, to North Adams yard and the junction with the Boston and Albany. The line is still in use today, albeit very much trimmed down. The catenary was de-energized in the late 1940s, and the wires came down shortly after that. In the 1950s the track was reduced to what it is today, a single track through the tunnel with some long passing sidings leading up on the east side. The once very large joint NYC/B&A and B&M yard in North Adams, is nothing more than a double-track with a rusty siding, and the B&A branch from Pittsfield, MA is nothing more than a stub-ended branch which ends in Zilonite at a limestone quarry, and a very weeded over one at that.






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