34. Big Bend Tunnel West
- COLLECTIBLES: Bobblehead, Caps Stash, Holotape, Magazine, Nuka-Cherry, Power Armor (2)
- CRAFTING: Armor (2), Chemistry, Cooking, Power Armor; Tinker; Weapons
- DANGER: Explosive cannister! Radiation!+
- ITEMS: Arms and Ammo+; Harvestable: Aluminum, Brain Fungus, Glowing Fungus; Health and Chems
- INFO: Expected Enemy: Irradiated Animal, Irradiated Insect, Scorched; Note; Quest: Search Big Bend Tunnel for Survivors; Scavenge Rating: 5; Size: 4; Sleeping; Threat Level: 25–35.
- LOCK: Door (1, Key), Safe (1)
- ITEM EXAMPLES: Abraxo Cleaner, Abraxo Cleaner Industrial Grade, Bag of Cement, Ball-Peen Hammer, Beer Bottle+, Blamco Brand Mac and Cheese, Boiled Water+, Bourbon, Broken Lightbulb, Bunsen Burner, Can, Canned Dog Food, Coffee Cup, Coolant+, Dandy Boy Apples, Duct Tape+, Enamel Bucket+, Fusion Core, Gas Canister+, Gear, Glass Jar, Hot Plate, Lantern, Lead Pipe, Liquor Bottle, Makeshift Battery+, Mentats, Metal Bucket, New River Red Ale, Oil Can, Oil Canister, Plastic Pumpkin, Rat Poison, Rusty Canister, Sensor Module, Short Assault Rifle, Shot Glass, Skull, Stealth Boy+, Surveyor Outfit, Tibia, Toilet Paper, Torque Rod End, Vodka Bottle, Volatile Materials Box, Whiskey
This vast underground tunnel system links Mount Blair to Big Bend Tunnel East (Watoga), over in Cranberry Bog Region. It is an alternate method to an overland crossing. Head east from Lewisburg along the railroad tracks to reach the entrance; Raider defenses and a (well-stocked) shanty are now overrun by even more deranged foes.
Inside, the tunnel has two main railroad tracks, so check both sides for foes and loot as you progress. Also investigate the various side passages—narrow mining tunnels filled with fungus and other loot. As you reach the main maintenance junction, dodge the containers and stilts, and investigate the large mining tunnel; here you can mine for aluminum. Eventually the tunnel ends at digging equipment and a corpse with the Big Bend Tunnel Door Key, allowing access into the maintenance junction building. When you’re done exploring, head to either entrance/exit, passing another shanty blockage as you go.