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April 16, 2008. The Washburn Tunnel is a two-lane underwater motor-vehicle tunnel connecting Galena Park and Pasadena, two suburbs of Houston, Texas. Completed in 1950, it travels north-south underneath the Houston Ship Channel. It was named after Harris County, Texas Auditor Harry L. Washburn. It is the largest and first toll-free vehicular ...
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Washburn Tunnel. Categories: Transportation in Texas. Tunnels in the United States by state or territory. Transportation buildings and structures in Texas.
Shipworm This dried specimen of Teredo navalis, and the calcareous tunnel that originally surrounded it and curled into a circle during preservation, were extracted from the wood of a ship. The two valves of the shell are the white structures at the anterior end; they are used to dig the tunnel in the wood. Scientific classification; Domain ...
The Baytown Tunnel or Baytown – La Porte Tunnel was a two-lane underwater motor-vehicle tunnel connecting Baytown and La Porte, two suburbs of Houston, Texas. Completed in 1953, [1] it traveled northeast-southwest underneath the Houston Ship Channel and had a length of 4,110 feet (1,250 m). [2] It was closed to vehicular traffic in 1995 with ...
A TikTok from user @engineer.everything recently went viral after she posted a one-year recap of her progress building an underground tunnel system beneath her home. In the video, she takes us ...
Coordinates: 29.75°N 95.37°W. A tunnel in the west part of the downtown loop. The Houston tunnel system is a network of subterranean, climate-controlled, pedestrian walkways that links 95 full city blocks 20 feet (6 m) below Houston 's downtown streets. It is approximately six miles (9.7 km) long. [1] There are similar systems in Chicago ...
November 14, 2023 at 2:35 PM. A woman on TikTok has gained notoriety for an unusual home improvement project: digging a tunnel that is 30 feet long and 20 feet deep under her suburban home in the ...