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George C. Wallace Tunnel
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Probably the best hidden tunnel in the country. Pictures of it are extremely rare.
Photo taken by Calvin Sneed in June 2010
BH Photo #168306
Description
Sections pre-assembled, brought to location, then sunk 40 feet below ship channel.. Sections concreted together to form seal (method similar to Bankhead Tunnel located just north of it).Facts
- Overview
- Dual four-lane tunnel under Mobile River on I-10 in Mobile
- Location
- Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1973
- Design
- Tunnel
- Dimensions
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Total length: 3,000.1 ft. (0.6 mi.)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +30.68994, -88.03536 (decimal degrees)
30°41'24" N, 88°02'07" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/400836/3395697 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mobile
- Inventory numbers
- AL 10851 (Alabama bridge number)
BH 10174 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 7, 2012: New photo from David Backlin
- July 22, 2011: New Street View added by Ben Tate
- July 8, 2010: New photo from Nathan Morton
- June 23, 2010: New photos from Calvin Sneed
Sources
- Calvin Sneed - us43137415 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Nathan Morton - morton890 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- David Backlin - us71 [at] cox [dot] net
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under the wallace tunnel and the bankhead tunnel there are a seirous of abbandend subway tunnels I have cleaned parts of them they would not let us look around and would not tell us much about them could you check into it few people even know about it and i have been tryen to get info on them for years thank you