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I'm surpised that this drainage tunnel is in such good condition

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7833-railway-tunnel.jpg Before Bathtub Spring Road rises up to the old Ivanpah railway grade, I notice a drainage tunnel under the old track bedThumbnailsClose-up of the tunnel under the old railway gradeBefore Bathtub Spring Road rises up to the old Ivanpah railway grade, I notice a drainage tunnel under the old track bedThumbnailsClose-up of the tunnel under the old railway gradeBefore Bathtub Spring Road rises up to the old Ivanpah railway grade, I notice a drainage tunnel under the old track bedThumbnailsClose-up of the tunnel under the old railway gradeBefore Bathtub Spring Road rises up to the old Ivanpah railway grade, I notice a drainage tunnel under the old track bedThumbnailsClose-up of the tunnel under the old railway gradeBefore Bathtub Spring Road rises up to the old Ivanpah railway grade, I notice a drainage tunnel under the old track bedThumbnailsClose-up of the tunnel under the old railway gradeBefore Bathtub Spring Road rises up to the old Ivanpah railway grade, I notice a drainage tunnel under the old track bedThumbnailsClose-up of the tunnel under the old railway grade

...then it occurs to me that the tunnel has likely been maintained here because the important access road to Bathtub Spring passes over it. Most other parts of the old railway grade are apparently being allowed to return to nature.