
During reconstruction, the culvert
was replaced with the current deck-girder bridge, and with only two tracks, utilizing the northern bore (the
two tracks shown below are temporary and will be removed after the bridge is
complete):


The East Portals were
natural stone, and also accumulated quite a bit of ice during the winter. The
picture below is from 2007 by Frank Dutton, published on his blog of local fatures
and events, Frank's Place:
Nay Aug was originally the location
of the junction between the Winton Branch and the Mainline, and was the site
of a coal marshalling yard for eastbound hoppers from the Branch. Because the
steepest portion of the grade to Pocono Summit was from Scranton to Nay Aug,
loaded coal hoppers were added to eastbound trains at this small yard. The yard
was a six-track yard located approximately four miles east of the tunnels, on
the northern side of the mainlines. The decrease in anthracite traffic from
the Winton Branch in the 1930s caused the yard and interlocking tower to be
closed in the late 1930s.
The northern Nay Aug tunnel is still in use today, but the "new tunnel" has
been abandoned. The photo below shows a typical eastbound EL freight passing
throught he tunnel, with U33-C and SD45-2 helpers ahead of the caboose and about
to enter the tunnel. The train is the CNJ-EL pool train, SE-98, hence the CNJ
caboose.

The helpers on Train SE-98
are about to enter Nay Aug Tunnel's West Portal, 1973. First-Out
collection.
Click
here to see the model version.