This is the east portal of the O&W's Fallsburgh Tunnel. Like all tunnels on the O&W, it was single-tracked. During the O&W's heyday when most of the main line from Scranton to Cornwall was double-tracked, tunnels like this were bottlenecks and required tower operators at both ends to maintain traffic flow. It's hard to believe that this remote path in the Catskills was once a throbbing artery for passenger and freight trains.

Photographed by Rich Kugel, March 15, 2008.
Added to the photo archive by Rich Kugel, March 17, 2008.
Railroad: New York Ontario and Western.

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