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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 ...
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.
An additional Alaska Railroad passenger stop, the Whittier NCL Depot, will be placed in service in 2025 along a separate yard track, immediately north of the staging area outside the east portal of the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel. Alaska Railroad passenger trains, operated by Alaska Railroad under charter to NCL Holdings for passengers of ...
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 ]
Whittier, California, named for John Greenleaf Whittier Whittier College, a private liberal arts college Whittier Law School; Whittier High School; Whittier Hills, a local name for the western end of the Puente Hills; Whittier Narrows, a water gap between the Puente Hills and the Montebello Hills; Whittier, Denver, a neighborhood in Denver ...
The Whittier City Council voted on Tuesday night to move forward with razing 83 ficus trees as part of a redesign of its commercial center despite backlash. Whittier to remove more than 80 ficus ...
It appeared that the fate of towering ficus trees rooted along a three-block stretch of Whittier’s commercial center was sealed. City Council members in December voted to approve a redesign of ...
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.