Big Bend Tunnel West

Big Bend Tunnel West is a location which lies along the Red Line in the Savage Divide region of Appalachia . It is the western entrance to the rest of the Big Bend Tunnel. Along with Big Bend Tunnel East, it is the location of a compound inhabited by the Blue Ridge Caravan Company.
Inhabitants include Carver Timmerman, Libby Wen and Kieran Kennedy (outside) and Joanna Mayfield with Herschel Klein (inside).
==Background==
Originally just a rail tunnel exit, the area became a hunting ground for the Cutthroats after the Great War. Under Carol Sweeney, raiders preyed on the survivors using the tunnel to pass under the Allegheny Mountains. However, following the slaughter of Charleston by David Thorpe on December 24, 2082 (The Christmas Flood), Sweeney and a group of her fellow Cutthroats abandoned the raiders, disgusted with the atrocity. They settled around the western end, hunting in the surrounding woods, scavenging Lewisburg and industrial locations around the exit, using tunnels for shelter.Scattered journal page #1 
In September 2085, the western end became a staging ground for salvage runs into the tunnel, with Sweeney's group quickly becoming adept at navigating them and turning up loot. The group tried to expand through the tunnel and out the eastern exit in November, though witnessing the scorchbeasts quickly put a stop to these escapades (diet of rat notwithstanding).Scattered journal page #2 They returned to the other end in 2088, establishing contact with a contingent under Knight Melissa Reische, and the western encampment expanded greatlyScattered journal page #3 through Fall 2093, thanks to Sweeney's group trading salvage for essential supplies with the Brotherhood. They even managed to start a small farming plot, breaking with their raider past.Scattered journal page #4
However, the situation changed dramatically after Reische's contingent withdrew and the Brotherhood was broken at Fort Defiance in 2095. Sweeney was aware of the scorched, but the retreat of the contingent left their eastern flank open. After setting up patrols and traps to contain them, the group held onto the western end of the tunnel.Scattered journal page #5 Unfortunately, in spring 2097, the scorched attacked from the west, following the destruction of the Responders. They arrived on the heels of two former Cutthroats desperately trying to flee the onslaught, just hours later. Sweeney's group retreated into the tunnel, sealing their fate and dying in short order.Scattered journal page #6 The abandoned settlement saw use for the final time as the staging ground for the Fire Breathers' final mission, a last ditch attempt to collapse the tunnel and cut the Ash Heap off from the Cranberry Bog.Orders from Melody
After it failed, it was abandoned for years, until in 2103 the Blue Ridge Caravan Company pushed through the tunnel, opening a trade route into Appalachia once again. The western end remains a beachhead, surrounded by wilderness and mutants, but defended by Blue Ridge guards who push ever deeper into Appalachia to link settlements and survivors together.Vault 76 dweller: "Where is the caravan headed?"Vinny Costa: "All over Appalachia. We ship to Foundation, Crater, a few smaller settlements here or there. Once we're west of Big Bend, the routes open up. Since we're one of the few sources of outside cargo coming in, even the folks up in Crater give us a pass."(Vinny Costa's dialogue)
In 2104, Joanna Mayfield set up her office there,Vinny Costa: "She's running things from our headquarters, well away from here, but she's been planning a visit. We'll see."(Vinny Costa's dialogue) not just to check up on the venture, but to investigate how to set down more permanent roots in Appalachia.Big Bend Tunnel terminal entries; Vinny Costa's terminal, Survey Reports
==Layout==
A rail line runs west to east through the Blue Ridge camp, which is encompassed by a makeshift wall. The corpse of Sgt. Allemane can be found a short distance west of the compound's main gate, resting next to an overturned boxcar. On the south side of the gate is a watchtower containing a pair of binoculars. The location is inhabited by multiple Blue Ridge Caravan ranch hands who patrol the area.
Located along the perimeter wall is a raised area containing a tinker's workbench, with an armor workbench located further to the north. Beneath the platform containing the tinker's workbench is a room containing a bunk bed.
The primary feature of the compound is the two story Blue Ridge office. The office possesses two entrances, one on the ground floor on its western side, and a second on the second floor accessible via a bridge over the rail line. Between the office and the cliff face is an animal pen containing two brahmin. At the end of the rail line on the eastern edge of the camp is the west entrance of Big Bend Tunnel.
==Notable loot==
* Allemane's code - Note, on Sgt. Allemane's corpse, near a blue overturned freight car outside the defenses of the Blue Ridge Caravan Company camp.
* Stealth Boy - On the second row, near the tinker's workbench, on a metal shelf.
* Potential recipe - To the right of the central gate, on a barrel.
==Appearances==
Big Bend Tunnel West appears only .
==Gallery==
FO76 Big Bend West 2104.png|Big Bend Tunnel West in 2104
FO76 Blue Ridge Office.png|Blue Ridge Office
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===Wastelanders===
FO76WL_Big_Bend_1.png|Big Bend Tunnel West in 2103
===Pre-Wastelanders===
F76 Big Bend Tunnel West.png|Big Bend Tunnel West in 2102
FO76 Allemane.png|Allemane in 2102
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==References==
Category:Fallout 76 locations
Category:Savage Divide locations
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