On the way from Zurich to Stuttgart as usual I was watching the scenery outside the windows of IC184. Between Rottweil and Horb the track tunnels through several hills along river Neckar, and to my utter surprise at one of the tunnel portals I read the sign "Tierstein-Tunnel".
I later looked up the Gaeubahn on Wikipedia, and indeed there is a "Tierstein-Tunnel", followed by "Hohenstein-Tunnel", whose name is awfully close to my "Hochwald-Tunnel". It's amazing how sometimes completely made-up names can be found in reality, not that far away from where I imagined they could be located in my model.
rottweil.net has a few very nice photos of the tunnel portal that in an instant had me wide awake on Friday afternoon.
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