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Re: Anybody know about a reported 1950 (?) Santa Fe (?) proposal to build out Tejon?
Author: synonymouse
Date: 09-23-2016 - 20:19
"The proposal gaining most public attention has been worked out by Dr. Cecil Dunn, economic analyst and engineer and professor of economics at Occidental College, who has been one of the pioneers in the Tehachapi Tunnel proposal. Dunn’s plan calls for tw-o shorter tunnels, one entering the mountains six miles north of Castaic a n d emerging 13 5-10 miles further north, followed by five miles open road, with the second tunnel entering the mountains near Gorman and emerging at Grapevine, after a 9 7/10-mile run."
..."Advocates, of the Dunn plan hold that it has several advantages, among them the fact that the route would cross the San Andreas fault on the surface rather than underground along the five mile open route between
the portals in the upper Ante* lope Valley. Also they point out that by constructing of two short sections of tunnel, instead of the originally proposed 20 mile bore, the problems of ventilation would be greatly simplified."
I dunno if this matches the Santa Fe scheme or is closer to alignments studied by PB and independently by Clem Tillier.
..."Advocates, of the Dunn plan hold that it has several advantages, among them the fact that the route would cross the San Andreas fault on the surface rather than underground along the five mile open route between
the portals in the upper Ante* lope Valley. Also they point out that by constructing of two short sections of tunnel, instead of the originally proposed 20 mile bore, the problems of ventilation would be greatly simplified."
I dunno if this matches the Santa Fe scheme or is closer to alignments studied by PB and independently by Clem Tillier.
