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
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/
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.