When a train goes through a tunnel, and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie Ten Boom
The Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge offers us every weekend a word, we can use in Poems, Pictures, every interpretation is welcome. As you already have read in the title and also in the quote from Corrie Ten Boom, the word for this weekend is “Tunnel”.
I have chosen three pictures, and, as a fan of trains, two of them are pictures from train tunnels. And one is just a tunnel for bicycle rider and pedestrians.
In 1993, steam locomotives were no more in regular service for more than 20 years. Some years after 1970, they are even not allowed to pass the official federal railroad routes. Nevertheless, some people came together and founded cooperatives to save the old ladies from getting scrapped. One of these clubs was (and is still) the “Eisenbahnfreunde Zollernbahn” (Zollernbahn Railway Enthusiasts). In 1993, they celebrated their 20th anniversary, and I was happy to catch this steam engine when it is coming out of a tunnel.
In 2009, I was at another tunnel, when a new commuter train is leaving the tunnel at Waldshut/Germany. For train enthusiasts: It is a class 641 from DB AG (German Railway), an Alstom Coradia A TER. In Germany, we also call this train “Whale”.
This is a tunnel for pedestrians and bicycle riders in Tübingen, Southern Germany. I took this photo in 2020 on a photowalk, where we tried to imagine the “rat’s view”. Actually, in this tunnel there was no rat.