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Originally Posted by shadyguy
I appreciate all the information on the "Second Hill Street Tunnel and looks like it may have been longer than any of the other tunnels. ?
If there are any photos of the entrances up close I would love to see them also!
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OK, I'm gonna put this all together... including a picture that I thought had been posted here earlier, but I was unable to find it in the thread!
First we have a photo that MichaelRyerson hosted and posted on page 605. It's 1945 and we're looking north, standing near the top of the stairs above the Hill St. double tunnel (trains on the left, cars on the right). A northbound train is about to pick up some riders, and then it will cross Temple St. and bear left into the unpaved approach to tunnel #2.
Next we have a couple of photos from a page at uncanny.net.
Now it's 1946 and we have walked down the stairs toward Temple Street. At extreme right, a red Pacific Electric train sits at the same spot as the one in the first photo, while a yellow & green LA Railway train turns toward us from eastbound Temple. Across Temple Street, a second PE train appears to be sitting in a siding that lays to the right of the tracks leading into tunnel #2. Marked at far left is the right edge of the concrete entrance to tunnel #2; the tunnel itself is blocked from view by that pesky foreground building.
http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/bunkerhill.htm
We continue walking towards Temple Street and then across it, finally allowing us a good view of the approach and south portal of tunnel #2 (while also stepping back in time a decade or two):
http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/bunkerhill.htm
Unfortunately, I was not able to find a good picture of the north portal. I shall have to make due with this wide shot looking west, posted by kznyc2k (also on page 605). We've come back to 1947, and the Hill St. double tunnel is visible at far left above the huge federal building, while the north portal of the Broadway tunnel is easy to make out towards the lower right.
But tunnel #2 is what we're looking for and I have marked it - what I think may be the disturbed earth around the cut for the south portal is just barely visible on the left, but the protruding concrete and shadow of the north portal is a little easier to make out on the right:
Ta da!