Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] MXUS international rail tunnel collapses
Date: Sep 20, 2004 @ 14:52
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> A brush fire last week that started in Mexico andgood work & fair play
> spread into the USA has done
> significant damage to four miles of railway. Most
> importantly, the fire burned
> out the timber supports within the only
> international railway tunnel between the
> two countries, causing both portals to collapse.
> The 598-foot tunnel (569.5 feet in the American_______________________________
> state of California and 28.5
> feet in the Mexican state of Baja California) was
> built in 1915. At the
> boundary within the tunnel, the rails of Carizzo
> Gorge Railway meet those of
> Ferrocarriles Peninsulares del Noroeste.
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> The tunnel and rail line are expected to be reopened
> in due time.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
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