Posted on 05/24/2016 10:09:11 AM PDT by C19fan
The world's longest railway tunnel is set to open in just over a week - after some 17 years of construction. Measuring 35.4-miles in length, the Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT) is 7,545 feet below the Gotthard massif, cutting through the Swiss Alps. The tunnel was first conceived in sketch-form in 1947 but construction began 17 years ago. It consists of two single-track tunnels connecting Erstfeld (Uri) with Bodio (Ticino) and passing below Sedrun (Graubünden).
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when I was a little kid the 6 miles of new tunnel under Arthur’s Pass in the Southern Alps in New Zealand was a wonder to behold...
It was fascinating taking the train to Christchurch while Dad commented on the construction etc..
What would Dad say to this ???
:)
It will handle freight and passenger trains. I assume no hazmat.
There’s a tunnel for a cog train up to the Zugspitze my team rode on in the early 70s....long and pretty neat. It went to the Schneefernerhaus Haus Hotel/Ski resort. From there we went higher via a cable car to the US Military comm installation.
GottHard? Hehe.
California high speed rail is being built on level, open land at a cost of $550m per mile.
About $300m per mile is going to graft.
Probably not good for those of us with varying degrees of claustrophobia.
Choo-choos through Khazad’Dum!
They should name one engine Gandalf and the other Aragorn!
They will guide you through the depths of Moria!
Which is why it is called either the
Crony Express or the Browndoggle.
My claustro isn’t as bad as it used to be (I think), I drive through highway tunnels all the time but for seventeen miles?
Omar & Achmed must be getting ideas.
This one is 35 miles.
No thanks.
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Seems like an obvious target for Muslim terrorists. Hopefully they’ve got precautions in place.
Evidently quite a massif one at that!
I went through the Chunnel back in 1995. It is 20 plus miles and to me it felt like a subway ride and due to the high speed of the trains you go through it fairly fast.
I drove through the Arthur’s Pass tunnel in 2013, and again in 2014. Very cool. And drippy. haha
Sounds like he'd have a hard time talking through his big grin.
Seventeen years? Then entire First Transcontinental Railroad didn’t take 6 years and was done by hand and sticks of dynamite.
Pelosi’s husband...
Nothing more than a terrorist target. Enjoy your nerve gas attack...but don’t worry, there’s not many Muslims in Europe....
And, as proof they are not racist, Muslims will be put in charge of security.
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