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Peter

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:

> A brush fire last week that started in Mexico and 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.
>
> The tunnel and rail line are expected to be reopened in due time.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA