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The floor of the tunnel is constructed of 1,800 texturized concrete panels, each 7.5 by 8 feet (2.29 by 2.44 m), with the railroad tracks sunken slightly below the road surface. [15] The interior is exposed rock, and contains several "safe-houses", which are small buildings that are used in case of severe earthquakes, vehicle fires, or other ...
The Whittier "station," or timepoint used by the Alaska Railroad for its rail operations, is at milepost 2.5, located immediately east of the east portal of the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, and west of the yard track leading to the Whittier NCL Depot. Passenger trains do not stop at this "station."
Maynard Mountain is a 4,137-foot (1,261 m) mountain summit located in the Chugach Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, 3 mi (5 km) northwest of Whittier, Alaska, at the isthmus of the Kenai Peninsula, where the Chugach Mountains meet the Kenai Mountains.
Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage. [4] The city is within the Chugach Census Area, one of the two entities established in 2019 when the former Valdez–Cordova Census Area was dissolved. [5]
The Whittier Line was a Pacific Electric interurban line which traveled between Los Angeles and Whittier via Huntington Park, Rivera, and Los Nietos. [2] A branch of the company's original Long Beach Line , operations along the line began in 1903.
The Begich Towers Condominium is a building in the small American city of Whittier, Alaska. The structure is notable for being the residence of nearly the entire population of the city as well as containing many of its public facilities; this has earned Whittier the nickname of "town under one roof". [1]
Whittier (/ ˈ hw ɪ t i ər /) is a city in Southern California in Los Angeles County, part of the Gateway Cities.The 14.7-square-mile (38.0 km 2) city had 87,306 residents as of the 2020 United States census, an increase of 1,975 from the 2010 census figure.
In 2009, Metro published the Eastside Transit Corridor Phase 2 Final Alternatives Analysis Report, [5] and in 2014 published a Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report. [6] In February 2020, the Metro Board voted to eliminate the SR 60 alignment and combined alignment alternatives from consideration, and proceed only ...