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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 tunnel in the ...
The Houston Ship Channel, in Houston, Texas, is part of the Port of Houston, one of the busiest seaports in the world. [1] The channel is the conduit for ocean-going vessels between Houston-area terminals and the Gulf of Mexico , and it serves an increasing volume of inland barge traffic.
The deep water Brownsville Ship Channel, to/from the Gulf of Mexico, passes between Padre Island and Brazos Island, Barrier islands of the Gulf Coast. The channel also passes the old harbor of Los Brazos de Santiago, the landing place of the Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda in 1519 and subsequent colonizers from the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
Even in the decades after World War I, putting ships out to pasture on the Neches was common practice, the man said. "You will see old sunken barges that 50, 60 years were parked out there, and ...
In a time of puddling water and exposed sandbars, Bill Milner, who grew up on the river, found the last resting place of five sizable ships along the Lower Neches near Beaumont on Aug. 18.
Houston Ship Channel; Sabine–Neches Waterway; Irrigation canals. See Texas Irrigation Canals. Franklin Canal (Texas) Riverside Canal (El Paso) American Canal
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]
The Gulf Intracoastal Waterway crosses the waterway near Port Arthur. Two of the top twenty (20) ports in terms of tonnage are located on the waterway. The Port of Beaumont , ranked fourth (4th) in the 2013 U.S. Port Ranking by Cargo Tonnage survey is located at the northern end of the waterway.