NEB&W Layout Guide - State Line Tunnel and ReynoldsLast Update: 2008-11-11
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State LineState Line tunnel is on the Boston & Albany RR (now Conrail) line at Canaan, NY on the NY-MA border. It was built as a double- track single-bore circa 1840, one of the oldest tunnels still in use. After 1900, a third track was added via a second hole. Later the double track was made single and centered in the tunnel. Today only one track remains. The tunnel is only about 600 feet long. The small holes over the portals are for rock bolts, to keep the soft rock from falling off (a 1950's photo shows a slightly different face).ReynoldsThe real Reynolds, NY is on the Boston & Maine RR. Even in modern times it still has an old-fashion wood highway overpass. We chose to model it and the adjacent corn field as a way to disguise the hole through the backdrop. The station is based on a NYC RR depot at Niskayuna, NY, but modeled in wood instead of brick. As such, it represents the 1840-'80 Carpenter Gothic Style. The vertical board-n-batten siding, made possible by the new steam-powered sawmills, was thought to be a more "natural" orientation for wood than clapboard.
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