Site of the west portal of the ill-fated Church Hill Tunnel in Richmond, Virginia. The tunnel collapsed in 1926, entombing a train a few hundred feet from this entrance. Note the water spewing from the top of the tunnel plug.

Efforts are underway to salvage the locomotive in the tunnel.

Photographed by Ernest Hunt, November 24, 2006.
Added to the photo archive by Ernest Hunt, November 25, 2006.
Railroad: Chesapeake & Ohio.

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