Whittier Harbor, Alaska
March 4, 2001

The Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel has shortened travel time from Anchorage, Alaska's major population center to Whittier, a small town on Prince William Sound. Prior to the tunnel opening, people traveling to Whittier had to queue up in a large parking lot at the end of Turnagain arm in order to load their vehicles onto flatbed rail cars. In the early 1990's we stayed in our car, which we had driven onto a Alaska Railroad rail car for the slow train ride through the tunnels to Whittier. Driving through the tunnel now takes only a fraction of the time it took to "take the train."