Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

Hopefully. So, perhaps moving on, 1. how difficult will the tunnel rebuild be, and 2. will it be capable of having 2 tracks? I thought I'd heard that most of the restoration only includes 1 track, but that was a while ago.

That article was from January. All tree clearing seems to have been completed by April 1.

Work is progressing on a small culvert at this time. Once the culvert is in place construction equipment will be able to access the tunnel.

Dcell wrote: ↑Sun May 28, 2023 1:49 pm Work suspended for endangered bat season? https://www.tapinto.net/towns/roxbury/s ... nd-andover

I am hearing that they will begin blasting at the Roseville tunnel next week to shorten then length to 1,000 ft

What is the need to shorten the Roseville tunnel at all?

We've established here that Hootie the Owl and Bacardi the Bat call the tunnel home. But when trains and their 100db engines start going through there, might they consider themselves "displaced"?

I believe the tunnel shortening is to comply with federal regulations concerning the length of an unventilated tunnel. If they did not shorten it they would have needed to provide some form of ventilation. Cheaper to cut off a hundred feet or so.

Mr. CharlieL, I .guess any such regulations were non-existent during DL&W days, and, in the later years, were "grandfathered".

CharlieL wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 3:46 pm I believe the tunnel shortening is to comply with federal regulations concerning the length of an unventilated tunnel. If they did not shorten it they would have needed to provide some form of ventilation. Cheaper to cut off a hundred feet or so.

It may be fire codes come into play? If longer then an escape shaft or separate escape tunnel might have been needed somewhere near middle of tunnel length. Remember Gateway is 2 bores to allow escape to other bore in case of emergency every 800 feet or so.

Tunnel is 1,024ft long. They are apparently only cutting about 24ft out.

So are they blasting this week?

Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 7:30 pm Mr. CharlieL, I .guess any such regulations were non-existent during DL&W days, and, in the later years, were "grandfathered".

Guessing any grandfathering would have ended when Conrail placed the line OOS.

At which end is the blasting?

They are blasting the western portal to shorten the overall length to 1,000 ft.

Where did the last 10+ posts go?

This is odd.

To the Scranton thread in Amtrak.