NEB&W Guide to State Line Tunnels & Reynolds, NY

Last Update: 2009-06-05

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State Line Tunnels

• Topographic map, c. 1959, showing the tunnel s are only a mile from the NYS Thruway (Berkshire Spur). (Get off at the exit just before the Mass. border and take Rt. 22 north 1.2 miles to Tunnel Hill Road. The road goes over the tunnel , but to get to the west portal, continue up to Canaan Center to the grade crossing.)
  • [Map.]

• C. 1900, there was only a single tunnel .
  • [Postcard.]
• Due to increased traffic, a third track was needed, but apparently the rock is so soft, a second bore a little distance away from the first one was added.
  • [Distance view c. winter 1973. The road that goes over the tunnel is visible on the right.]
  • [Distance view c. summer 1982.]
• Up close.
  • [Prototype view by Jim Shaughnessy c. 1950's. (Note the rockwork is slightly different in this view.]
  • [Winter view by Geoff Hubbs c. 1972.]
  • [Prototype view by Tony Steele c. 1973. The holes are rock bolts, as the rock is so soft and were added to stablize the face since the Shaughnessy photo. ]
  • [Prototype view, I think also by Tony Steele, c. 1973.]
  • [Summer 1982.]
  • [Train time, summer '82.]

• On our layout.
  • [Model view.]

• Two NEB&W freights meet. (Smoke added digitally.)
  • [Model photo, by James Lauser.]

• A couple of Lou Sassi photos.
  • [Model photo, by Lou Sassi.]
  • [Model photo, by Lou Sassi.]

Reynolds

• Topographic map, c. 1949. Reynolds was on the B&M line to Mechanicville.
  • [Map.]
  • [Close-up.]

• Greg Whittle discovered the prototype of the bridge, which as of his photo, 1983, was still wood. We used it to disguise where the main line s go through the backdrop.
  • [Prototype view.]

• Jeff English caught a Conrail train at this site.
  • [Prototype view.]

• Overview of Reynolds.
  • [Bird's eye view of the layout.]

• Coming around the curve.
  • [Model view.]
  • [Another view.]

• Bridge over tracks.
  • [Model view.]

• Station and farm field.
  • [Model view.]

• Two trains meet at Reynolds.
  • [Model photo by Jeff English.]

• Under the bridge.
  • [Model view.]
  • [Model view, digitally improved.]

• The prototype of the depot was the one at Niskayuna, NY. (It was brick, but Bill Mischler translated it into wood.)
  • [Gerrit Bruins photo, 1953 fan trip.]
  • [Another Bruins photo from this same fan trip.]

• Lou Sassi took this photo of Reynolds for the March '97 cover of Main line Modeler. (If you have or know of a layout that should get photographic coverage, e-mail him at Lousassi@aol.com or call (518) 399-5474.)
  • [Model view.]

See our Layout Guide for State Line.

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