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Scenes from the Past > A Section of the Detroit River Tunnel in tow down the St. Clair River.
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Scenes from the Past > St. Clair River train tunnel, Port Huron, Michigan. Electric Engines entering the tunel.
Scenes from the Past > St. Clair Tunnel, Port Huron, Michigan - Grand Trunk Railroad. From the Wikipedia entry at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_Tunnel "The St. Clair Tunnel Company opened the first tunnel in 1891. The company was a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railway, which used the new route to connect with its subsidiary Grand Trunk Western Railroad. Prior to the tunnel's construction, the GTR was forced to use time-consuming rail ferries to transfer cargo. The tunnel was an engineering marvel in its day, achieved through the development of original techniques for excavating in a compressed air environment. The St. Clair River tunnel was the first railway tunnel in the world to pass beneath a river. Freight trains used the tunnel initially with the first passenger trains using it in 1892. The tunnel measured 1,836 m (6,025 ft) from portal to portal. The actual width of the St. Clair River at this crossing is only 698 m (2,290 ft). The tube had a diameter of 6.05 m (19 ft, 10 in) and hosted a single standard gauge track. It was built at a cost of $2.7 million. Steam-powered locomotives were used in the early years to pull trains through the tunnel, however concerns about the potential dangers of suffocation should a train stall in the tunnel led to the installation of catenary wires for electric-powered locomotives by 1907. The first electric locomotive use through the tunnel in regular service occurred on May 17, 1908. In 1923, the GTR was nationalized by Canada's federal government, which then merged the bankrupt railway into the recently-formed Canadian National Railways. CNR also assumed control of the GTWR and the tunnel company and continued operations much as before. The electric-powered locomotives were retired in 1958 and scrapped in 1959 after CNR retired and scrapped its last steam-powered locomotives on trains passing through the tunnel. New diesel-powered locomotives didn't cause the same problems with air quality in this relatively short tunnel. After the Second World War, railways in North America started to see the dimensions of freight cars increase. CN (name/acronym change in 1960) was forced to rely upon rail ferries to carry freight cars which exceeded the limits of the tunnel's dimensions, such as automobile carriers and certain intermodal cars and chemical tankers."
Scenes from the Past > St. Clair Tunnel, Port Huron, Michigan. From the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_Tunnel First tunnel (1891-1995) The St. Clair Tunnel Company opened the first tunnel in 1891. The company was a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railway, which used the new route to connect with its subsidiary Grand Trunk Western Railroad. Prior to the tunnel's construction, the GTR was forced to use time-consuming rail ferries to transfer cargo. The tunnel was an engineering marvel in its day, achieved through the development of original techniques for excavating in a compressed air environment. The St. Clair River tunnel was the first railway tunnel in the world to pass beneath a river. Freight trains used the tunnel initially with the first passenger trains using it in 1892. The tunnel measured 1,836 m (6,025 ft) from portal to portal. The actual width of the St. Clair River at this crossing is only 698 m (2,290 ft). The tube had a diameter of 6.05 m (19 ft, 10 in) and hosted a single standard gauge track. It was built at a cost of $2.7 million. Steam-powered locomotives were used in the early years to pull trains through the tunnel, however concerns about the potential dangers of suffocation should a train stall in the tunnel led to the installation of catenary wires for electric-powered locomotives by 1907. The first electric locomotive use through the tunnel in regular service occurred on May 17, 1908.[1] In 1923, the GTR was nationalized by Canada's federal government, which then merged the bankrupt railway into the recently-formed Canadian National Railways. CNR also assumed control of the GTWR and the tunnel company and continued operations much as before. The electric-powered locomotives were retired in 1958 and scrapped in 1959 after CNR retired and scrapped its last steam-powered locomotives on trains passing through the tunnel. New diesel-powered locomotives didn't cause the same problems with air quality in this relatively short tunnel. After the Second World War, railways in North America started to see the dimensions of freight cars increase. CN (name/acronym change in 1960) was forced to rely upon rail ferries to carry freight cars which exceeded the limits of the tunnel's dimensions, such as automobile carriers and certain intermodal cars and chemical tankers.
Scenes from the Past > St. Clair Tunnel, Port Huron, Michigan - Grand Trunk Railroad. From the Wikipedia entry at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair_Tunnel "The St. Clair Tunnel Company opened the first tunnel in 1891. The company was a subsidiary of the Grand Trunk Railway, which used the new route to connect with its subsidiary Grand Trunk Western Railroad. Prior to the tunnel's construction, the GTR was forced to use time-consuming rail ferries to transfer cargo. The tunnel was an engineering marvel in its day, achieved through the development of original techniques for excavating in a compressed air environment. The St. Clair River tunnel was the first railway tunnel in the world to pass beneath a river. Freight trains used the tunnel initially with the first passenger trains using it in 1892. The tunnel measured 1,836 m (6,025 ft) from portal to portal. The actual width of the St. Clair River at this crossing is only 698 m (2,290 ft). The tube had a diameter of 6.05 m (19 ft, 10 in) and hosted a single standard gauge track. It was built at a cost of $2.7 million. Steam-powered locomotives were used in the early years to pull trains through the tunnel, however concerns about the potential dangers of suffocation should a train stall in the tunnel led to the installation of catenary wires for electric-powered locomotives by 1907. The first electric locomotive use through the tunnel in regular service occurred on May 17, 1908. In 1923, the GTR was nationalized by Canada's federal government, which then merged the bankrupt railway into the recently-formed Canadian National Railways. CNR also assumed control of the GTWR and the tunnel company and continued operations much as before. The electric-powered locomotives were retired in 1958 and scrapped in 1959 after CNR retired and scrapped its last steam-powered locomotives on trains passing through the tunnel. New diesel-powered locomotives didn't cause the same problems with air quality in this relatively short tunnel. After the Second World War, railways in North America started to see the dimensions of freight cars increase. CN (name/acronym change in 1960) was forced to rely upon rail ferries to carry freight cars which exceeded the limits of the tunnel's dimensions, such as automobile carriers and certain intermodal cars and chemical tankers."
A Section of the Detroit River Tunnel in tow down the St. Clair River.
Scenes from the Past > A Section of the Detroit River Tunnel in tow down the St. Clair River.
A Section of the Detroit River Tunnel in tow down the St. Clair River.
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