AlaskaRoads.com
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Alaska Roads -- main page
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Excerpted from the website:
- These eleven photos, from my summer 2001 vacation, cover the toll tunnel and access road connecting the Seward Highway (part of Alaska state route 1), at the east end of Turnagain Arm, to the port of Whittier at the west end of Prince William Sound. This unnumbered state-maintained highway, about 11 miles long, was completed in 2000 (the westernmost five miles were built much earlier, to provide access to Portage Lake). It is most famous for the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, originally constructed as a one-track rail tunnel during World War II. The new highway project included conversion of that tunnel to a combined auto/rail tunnel, with carefully-controlled alternating phases for eastbound cars and trucks, westbound cars and trucks, and trains (on a pair of tracks embedded in the new roadway).
