Railroad Alpine Tunnel 1952
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Uploaded by trailertrane on Sep 20, 2009
This is a short clip from the Summer of 1952 of the West side of the Alpine Tunnel (Colorado). Now it is the Historic Alpine tunnel. In 1952 it was just the Alpine tunnel. Note that many ties are still in place even though the rails are long gone. The first frame in the clip shows the top of the tunnel opening. This movie was taken 42 years after the last train went through the tunnel. The mountain was already in the process of reclaiming itself as shown by the damage caused by falling rock. Today, both ends of the tunnel are blocked by rock slides. Mother nature always has her way in the end.
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Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you for that trip back into our history. 1952 is coming on 60 years soon and it is nice to see our State in that time period. Thanks again
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Wow still had ties in place after 42 years since the last train.
southparkline1 1 year ago
@southparkline1 At the time you had to hike in to the tunnel site. There was rail in places sticking out of the tunnel ends. Guess they did not want to go into the tunnel to remove the rail. I don't think I would go in there either as by 1928 the tunnel was already falling down in places. No sense in tempting fate.
trailertrane 1 year ago
What is the music used as a backing to this as I'd like to get it please?
RigiUK 2 years ago
I don't know. It was in Windows Vista and I imported it into MS Movie Maker. There was some hard rock music too, but did not fit in with the movies, so I used this.
trailertrane 2 years ago