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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 Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, often called the Whittier Tunnel, is a dual-use highway and railroad tunnel that passes through Maynard Mountain. With a length of 13,300 feet (4,100 meters), it is the second-longest highway tunnel and longest combined rail and highway tunnel in North America.
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."
"The 2.5 mile tunnel that you have to pass through to enter the town is one lane only -- they switch the direction of travel every 30 minutes. You have to wait at these lights until they let you ...
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 Begich Towers Condominium is an American building in the small city of Whittier, Alaska. The structure is notable for being the residence for nearly the entire population of the city as well as containing many of its public facilities. This has earned Whittier the nickname of a "town under one roof". [1]
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.
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 ...