T.G.'s Photography Blog

Karlsplatz Station Tunnel After getting off of the U-Bahn at Karlsplatz, I felt like I was in a space station when I looked down one of the pedestrian tunnels. Photo taken: May 2, 2015, at Vienna, Austria.

Interstate 70 at the Eisenhower Tunnel This view is looking toward I-70 and the east entrance to the Eisenhower Tunnel. The road curving up in the lower left is Loveland Pass (US 6), which trucks carrying hazardous materials have to use, instead of the tunnel on I-70. The tunnel goes under the Continental Divide, while Loveland Pass goes up and over it. Photo taken: September 6, 2013, from Loveland Pass.

April 29, 2015. Prague, Czechia. A tram makes it way through the small tunnel underneath a building on Letenská Street in Lesser Town. Photo © Tom Gatermann.

DPP Tram 9252 - Lesser Town Prague DPP Tram 9252, a model 15 T type tram built by Škoda, makes it way through a small archway/tunnel underneath a building on Letenská street in Lesser Town Prague . I did not notice when I took this photograph, but the two tracks actually do not actually join together using switches to form a single track. If you look closely, you can see that they stay separate, so that the two tracks can fit through the narrow tunnel. Photo taken: April 29, 2015. Prague, Czechia.

Tram 9252 - Archway in Lesser Town Tram 9252, a model 15 T tram built by A Škoda, makes its way through a small archway underneath a building on Letenská street in Lesser Town Prague . The tracks The tracks through the archway/tunnel are interesting, in my opinion. The tracks do not come together utilizing a switch to form a single track through the archway, and then split apart using another switch on the other side of the archway. Instead, the two tracks come very close together, but stay separated from each other.  I didn't realize this until I was back home from my trip and looking at the photographs. Photograph taken: April 29, 2015, at Prague, Czechia.

Tram 9251 - Skoda - Lesser Town Prague A Škoda 15 T type tram, number 9251, rolls down Letenská street toward an archway and tunnel under a building in Menší Město pražské ( Lesser Town of Prague ), on the Number 12 Route near the Malostranské náměstí (Lesser Town Square) tram stop. The two tracks do not actually become one when they pass through the tunnel and archway under the building. The two sets of tracks stay separated from each other, but come close to one another. April 29, 2015. Lesser Town, Prague, Czechia.

East portal of West Barraetts Tunnel This is the east tunnel portal of the western Barretts tunnel. There are two tunnels approximately a quarter of a mile apart. The west tunnel sits on the Museum of Transportation's property. I believe also that the east tunnel is also owned by the museum, even though it cannot be accessed by the public. The east tunnel sits outside the museum's main grounds. Today the west tunnel is used to store miscellaneous railroad rolling stock. Visitors to the museum cannot go inside the tunnel as the east portal is fenced off. The two tunnels were built as part of the Pacific Railroad's drive to build a line from St. Louis west to Kansas City, via Jefferson City. Both tunnels were built in the mid 1850's. The west tunnel is the shorter of the two tunnels and is about 410 feet long. The east tunnel is about 590 feet long. In 1929 concrete was used to rebuild the west tunnel's portals (US Dept. of the Interior). United States Depar...

Mount Rushmore Recently I've been digging into some of the scans I have done of my old film images. This photograph of Mount Rushmore was taken during a family vacation to the Black Hills of South Dakota , back in 1991. The view is looking through a tunnel on the Needles Highway. As you can guess from the sign, the tunnels on the Needles Highway are only wide enough for one car to pass through at a time. The image was captured on Kodak Tri-X black and white film. The film was either processed in Kodak D-76 or Kodak HC-110 film developer. Those were my two mainstay developers at the time. The negative was scanned on a Nikon ED9000 film scanner and processed in Adobe Photoshop. Photo taken: August 1991, near Keystone, South Dakota.