Copper Canyon Travel
First Class Train to Ciudad Chihuhua, Mexico - Page 10
The tunnels are amazing. There is no way the builders
of the railroad could move a train over the hill pictured
here, and no way to build a railway around it, so they blasted
their way through and then laid the tracks. One begins
to appreciate the claim that this railway is an engineering
marvel as the train moves through the dozens of such tunnels
on the great train ride through the Sierra Madres.
I recommend keeping your head within the safe confines of the railway car when the train enters a tunnel, because, as you can see here, the tunnels were made just big enough for the train, and the distance between the train and the walls of the tunnel are not always as spacious as shown here. There is not much to see in the tunnels, of course, just darkness and the steady sound of the locomotive pulling the train through them.
The pungent smell of the diesel engine even seems to be
adding something to the experience.
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