Driving from Anchorage to Whittier to play in Prince William Sound? You’ll go through Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel—the longest (2.5 miles) highway tunnel in North America, and the first designed for -40 Fahrenheit temperatures and 150 mph winds!
The one-lane tunnel must be shared by cars and trains traveling in both directions, and it usually needs to be aired out in between trips (with jet turbine ventilation, another first!). This unique design that enables a single lane of traffic to travel directly over the railroad track saved tens of millions of dollars over the cost of constructing a new tunnel.
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Denali National Park
Discover British Columbia by Water
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Glacier National Park
Gold Panning
Gold Panning
Gold Rush To Alaska
Haines
Hoonah
Ice Road Truckers
Idaho: Adventures in Living
Iditarod
Iditarod 2011 Field Video
Jasper National Park
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Museums
Nahanni National Park
Northern Lights
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Palmer
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Poems by Robert Services
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Skagway
Southeast Alaska Inside Passage
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