CIND - Creekside Drive Tunnel
Photos
Happy Hollow Road Tunnel
You drive down a county road, go around a left turn and into the creek and then the 'cave'. Yeah right!!
Photo taken by Ed Hollowell in January 2010
BH Photo #155613
Video
The Happy Hollow Tunnel, Bonnell, Indiana Short Video on Happy Hollow Tunnel and low water crossing. History in Your Own Backyard |
Facts
- Overview
- Tunnel under ex Big 4 Railroad on former Happy Hollow Rd
- Location
- Bonnell, Dearborn County, Indiana
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1904
- Builder
- - Moore-Mansfield Construction of Indianapolis, Indiana
- Railroads
- - Central Railroad of Indiana (CIND)
- Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway (CCC&StL; Big Four)
- Conrail (CR)
- New York Central Railroad (NYC)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Design
- Concrete culvert
- Dimensions
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Total length: 120.0 ft.
- Also called
- Happy Hollow
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.18007, -84.98654 (decimal degrees)
39°10'48" N, 84°59'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/673913/4338690 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Guilford
- Elevation
- 655 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 44181 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 16, 2021: Updated by Luke: Removed erroneous railroad category; Replaced with correct one
- February 15, 2021: Updated by Ed Hollowell: Alternate name, railroad
- September 20, 2018: New photos from Carl Crasher
- September 26, 2017: Updated by Ed Hollowell: Change in road name
- July 26, 2017: New Street View added by J.P.
- March 13, 2010: Updated by Ed Hollowell: Corrected type to tunnel.
- February 19, 2010: Added by Ed Hollowell
Sources
- Ed Hollowell - erhollowell [at] aol [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Luke
Comments
Looks like they added a culvert pipe and raised the low water crossing sometime in the last 8 years. Maybe that is why they changed the road name.
It's an interesting virtual drive to the "real" crossing.
If you continue on this road to the north west it will cross a set of tracks that makes a steep and somewhat washed out portion north side. That is doable but it will bring you back to Tanner's Creek on a true Creek crossing. I turned around. A truck or some awd vehicles with ground clearance are advised.
It appears the road has had it's name changed to Creekside Drive. When I posted this it was shown on most maps as "Happy Hollow Road".
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/in/dearborn/happy-hollow-rd-tunnel/
Visited site recently. It appears that there was some flooding on the east side and the road was washed out badly. It looks a little different than it did the last time I was there, I think due to flooding.