10-08-2012, 01:59 PM
I was out scouting around a couple of weekends ago and came across the old Johnson Canyon Railway tunnel.
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Normally, it would be about a two mile hike but since I was on two wheels instead of four, I rode right up to it. I would have ridden through it but due to recent rains, the entrance was covered in several inches of mud.
Western portal
![[Image: DSC00011.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00011.jpg)
Interior shot with sunlight reflecting off the mud inside the western portal
![[Image: DSC00017.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00017.jpg)
Eastern portal
![[Image: DSC00014.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00014.jpg)
![[Image: DSC00019.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00019.jpg)
The line back out...
![[Image: DSC00020.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00020.jpg)
Late in the day near Williams
![[Image: DSC00031.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00031.jpg)
Long shadows
![[Image: DSC00028.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00028.jpg)
![[Image: DSC00025.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00025.jpg)
But good sunsets
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Normally, it would be about a two mile hike but since I was on two wheels instead of four, I rode right up to it. I would have ridden through it but due to recent rains, the entrance was covered in several inches of mud.
Western portal
![[Image: DSC00011.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00011.jpg)
Interior shot with sunlight reflecting off the mud inside the western portal
![[Image: DSC00017.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00017.jpg)
Eastern portal
![[Image: DSC00014.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00014.jpg)
![[Image: DSC00019.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00019.jpg)
The line back out...
![[Image: DSC00020.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00020.jpg)
Late in the day near Williams
![[Image: DSC00031.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00031.jpg)
Long shadows
![[Image: DSC00028.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00028.jpg)
![[Image: DSC00025.jpg]](http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g151/TrainNut/Motorcycle/2012-09-30%20GC%20Loop/DSC00025.jpg)
But good sunsets
Scotland shall rise again!
