Unstable Lost Coast Geology + Tourist Train = Tunnel Failure (Mendocino Skunk Train)

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Huge tunnel collapse imperils Mendocino County Skunk Train

By Sean Scully

Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Published: Sunday, May. 19, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 3A

FORT BRAGG – Train tunnel No. 1 on the old California Western Railroad has endured a lot of punishment since it was hacked out of the serpentine and metasandstone rock east of Fort Bragg by Chinese and Italian laborers a century ago.

Sometime overnight between April 12 and 13, a 40-foot length of the tunnel collapsed for reasons still unexplained, dumping thousands of tons of rock onto the track, rubble that Skunk Train officials say they cannot afford to remove.

http://www.sacbee.com/2013/05/19/5431665/huge-tunnel-collapse-imperils.html

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