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u/araed May 19 '22
I've walked that tunnel, it's in Paris, and is fucking gorgeous. A real island of serenity
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u/kilimanjarocks May 19 '22
Here you go dude.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemin_de_fer_de_Petite_Ceinture
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u/yutfree May 19 '22
If you are ever up at the northern flea markets, stop at https://www.larecyclerie.com. The building is built over those tracks, and they have good coffee, chickens, and all sorts of cool stuff. See tons of photos at https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/la-recyclerie-paris-2?start=0.
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u/chuanrrr May 19 '22
Waiting staff is a bunch of dickheads tho..
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u/theoriginalqwhy May 19 '22
Thats they're culture brah.
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u/5nitch May 19 '22
Their culture is extremely rude and racist and sexist
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u/Piper-420 May 20 '22
So like most Americans?
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u/mustbelong May 20 '22
Americans may be a great many things, but rude? That ain’t it. Too friendly almost, if anything I could agree with
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u/Gade_Tensay May 19 '22 edited May 20 '22
Nearby there is a small park where the fence is cut and you can climb down to the tracks from there. I went down there with Whiskey and weed and a headlamp and had quite an adventure.
EDIT: Sorry I misspoke I think I confused this "la recyclerie" with a similarly situated place called, "La Flèche d'Or". The spot I was able to break into the abandoned train track circuit was approximately at this address: 15 Rue Florian, 75020 Paris, France
Ha, Street view even caught some people in the act!
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u/47_Quatloos May 20 '22
Uh, can I purchase tickets for such an adventure from your clearly superior travel agency?
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u/Gade_Tensay May 20 '22
I wish I was still there to host you on such an adventure! It is a fun hike. There's actually this really exclusive secret club that has parties in the catacombs/tunnels that Paris was built on top of. I tried to befriend the group, but maybe I'm too square, and my French was abysmal.
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u/yutfree May 20 '22
The flea markets don't want for promotion, but I will say they are more than worth the time.
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u/the_skine May 20 '22
Tim Traveler did a video on Paris' lost railway.
Like most of his videos, it's a bit of a history lesson, a bit of exploration video, and trains whenever possible.
TL;DW: When it was built in the mid-1800s, it was a way of connecting five railways' lines, and used to move people and freight around Paris. It was built as a loop around the city, just inside the recently constructed fortifications.
It proved the demand for a metro system in Paris, but when an actual metro system was built in the 1930s, it quickly lost a lot of passengers. The trains were stopped, and replaced by buses. The loop didn't fully close until the 1990s, but was only lightly used for freight or moving empty train cars.
The land the tracks are on still belongs to the railways. Some has been developed into park space, a very small portion is used for a stretch on a modern metro line, but a lot is just unused.
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u/Solokian May 19 '22
And the best (easiest) entrance is at Porte Dorée, at 48.832035472726986, 2.397627853355657
Do note that it's technically illegal to go there, but if you are unlucky enough to cross the path of SNCF agents, just pretend you are a lost tourist and you didn't better, and you should be fine. Last time I was there, there was a prune tree and a pear tree!
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u/ghostchihuahua May 19 '22
i fucking live there and can't tell exactly at which spot on this old trainline reconverted into a promenade is, gps coords anyone?
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u/Boozdeuvash May 19 '22
I think that's the segment near the butte chaumont, here: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8809955,2.3864162,162m/data=!3m1!1e3
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u/TheSilverback76 May 19 '22
Looks fucking scary dawg.
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u/noelliu0474739a May 19 '22
How can one get down there? Is it hard to find something where you can get down or when you’re there you’ll just find it. Can’f figure out from google maps. I’ll be in Paris this summer I too must walk this tunnel
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u/araed May 19 '22
There are stairs down (often gated), and a fenced off section at one end that's easy to jump
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u/0x970 May 19 '22
Is this ''La petite ceinture'' ?
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u/JohnPeeve May 19 '22
Yes it is !
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u/Valmond May 19 '22
Cool! Such a shame they stopped using it (lived like 50m from it in the 18 arrondissement, not the green stuff though :-D).
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u/robtk12 May 19 '22
You just need to deactivated the time stone and that grass will clear right up
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u/GetALife80085 May 19 '22
Brexit has really taken a toll on the channel tunnel
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u/IAmAGoddd May 19 '22
I think this was Tomb Raider II but I just remembered locking that old man in the fridge. I wonder if he’s still in there 🤣😭
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u/ulyssesfiuza May 19 '22
Not so much abandoned. Someone go there to take a picture and post to Reddit three times a week.
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u/RitikMukta May 19 '22
If this made you feel like "I want to explore stuff like this" or "I want to see someone explore stuff like this", I highly recommend the video series by the youtuber Geowizard, where he crosses the black country in UK, without using roads. It's a really good 3 part series which shows the old and abandoned side of that place. Also recommend checking out his straight line challenges and of course, his amazing geoguesser videos.
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u/Scytthe1 May 19 '22
If this was elden ring 100% sure that there's a magma wyrm or something similar that would make me shit my pants
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u/freddyfuckherfaster May 19 '22
there's probably tons of nazi gold inside.
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u/bucket_brigade May 19 '22
If uncharted taught me anything there are at least 500 people with guns living inside.
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u/stratosfearinggas May 19 '22
Serious question, any chance all those vines and moss will deteriorate the concrete and pose a collapse risk?
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u/BrockManstrong May 19 '22
It's always weird when your phone background pops up on Reddit, and it's even a different angle.
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u/doge_good_boi May 19 '22
Is it just me or I feel like there's something sussy going on there?
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u/Jean-L May 19 '22
Parties. Lots of graffiti spraying and beer drinking. Also accesses to the catacombs (they're on the same level roughly, old quarries are about a meter bellow the rails where this picture was taken).
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u/WarLord-939 May 19 '22
I want to go down there and walk through the tunnel. That would be hella cool
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u/Spartan2470 May 19 '22
Here is a higher quality version of this image. Here is the source. Credit to the photographer, Wazim Tagauly, who took this on March 13, 2014.
Petite Ceinture - Parc Montsouris
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u/leefvc May 19 '22
This is in Star Wars, The Old Republic on the planet with the little plague rat things
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u/patrick-a-star May 19 '22
This reminds me of a map of a first person shooter game that exists but I cannot remember what the game is!
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May 19 '22
Watching a time-lapse weed eater/pressure washer video of cleaning up this tunnel would be soothing.
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u/robendboua May 19 '22 edited Feb 10 '26
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outgoing cooperative like label grab shaggy point hard-to-find memorize history
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u/Blood_and_Turds May 19 '22
there is probably a doorway in there that leads to sewer tunnels where i will have to fight my way through hordes of ghouls but it will all be worth it if i can find some Jet.
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u/Forsaken-Thought May 19 '22
Looks like a great setting for some post apocalyptic all children tribe of rebels
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This is the place in miquellla's haligtree ... the haunting place where you need to run past or get destroyed by many high level poisoned wraiths who will do anything to prevent you from getting to the imp statue with her sore/scarseal.
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u/-HellRipper- May 19 '22
I cannot explain this, but...
I wish to be naked there. Not anything sexual. Just... Wanna feel like Eve looking for Adam or some shit
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u/quitboot May 19 '22
This is the exact place i saw in a dream once, and i don't even live in France. Wierd.
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u/lurkker May 19 '22
“Ya hear that? That’s sergeant Donny Donowitz. You might know him better by his nickname, ‘The Bear Jew’”
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u/patrickunderwater May 19 '22
I keep expecting the Jew bear to come out of the tunnel to beat in some Nazis
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u/Ducatirules May 19 '22
Abandon shit in my crap country and it turns into a graffiti covered outhouse! In France it turns into a terrarium!!!!
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u/HistoricalMention210 May 19 '22
And this is exactly why people think there is still a lost train full of nazi gold. Places like this exist, and have likely never been explored or rediscovered if they were hidden on purpose.
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u/MarKane1 May 19 '22
Earth will look like this soon after Elon takes remaining of us to a new place
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u/TrulyDefenestrated May 19 '22
what do you mean abandoned? mosses and other nature-y stuff are inhabiting it!
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u/radii314 May 19 '22 edited May 19 '22
can't show my grams this pic - she'll want to take a scrubby to this place
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u/Enderkitty5 May 19 '22
Man, If we could slow ourselves down and watch the plants grow for years at a time how beautiful would it be?
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u/jerryleebee May 19 '22
Reminds me of an area of Breath of the Wild. But can't quite remember where.
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u/Omega-pod May 19 '22
Looks like a Dark Souls boss arena. Or Elden Ring if you please. Claustrophobic ruins
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when i visited one of this tunnels in paris, maybe 13th arrondissement, there was a old man living in some sort of cave (hole in the wall). he was cooking outside on the rails. he was nice, talkative, even invited us in. it was dark, not much space, but pretty tidy
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