On our train journey we passed through two tunnels. The first we had to take slow as we only had 5 feet between top of the train and the tunnel. The second, Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, was 2.7 miles long through the Maynard Mountain and has over 200 feet of solid granite ice above your head. This 2.7 mile tunnel was blasted in one years time. This is the second longest highway tunnel and longest combined rail and highway tunnel in North America.
The tunnel is named after Anton Anderson, an army engineer who in 1941 headed up the construction of the railroad spur from Whittier to Portage.
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