Steve Carter Wrote:
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> I read an article in the Tacoma News Tribune about
> a yunnel UP started in 1909. The article is
> quite interesting, but left me with a couple of
> questions.
>
> 1) Does anyone have a modern day reference point
> to the North Portal?
>

Here's an article mentioning the UP Tacoma tunnel location:

[weeklyvolcano.typepad.com]

He tells me of other known oddities, most notably the "Big Bore," a mammoth tunned project that started near South 25th Street and Jefferson and made it as far as Center Street and South Yakima, that was abandoned when it filled with water and drained the Union Pacific railroad of cash. Even now, it complicates the occasional construction project.