We headed out to get in line for the Whittier Tunnel to make it thru on the half hour when it’s open for the eastbound ride into Whittier.
The lines to go thru are in parallel numbered rows. 
Trucks are all the way to the right and they get to go thru first. Then it’s back to Row 1 and they count up.
The tunnel is a one-lane affair that has you straddling the railroad track that it was built for and it seems a lot longer than its 2.5 miles length. It is the longest tunnel in North America!
Kathy took a few short videos while I was driving thru.
Whittier is a very secluded town with mountains surrounding it and a large water port for large ships. It was drizzly and fairly windy the day we were there. We stopped for lunch at Swiftwater Cafe at the end of the main road near the ferry building.
While walking around that little spit of land with shops on it, I noticed a patio on 
a restaurant that looked a bit precarious to me. Stacked 2x scrap holding the deck up.
We then drove out a gravel road that went a few miles and ended at a large viewpoint.
On the way back, we stopped at a small park where I saw a bunch of seagulls milling about near a creek. I went over to see what was going on and I was shocked to see the small creek was chock full of salmon. So many it was like they were packed in nose to tail! The creek was almost too shallow for them to move, but it didn’t stop them from trying to get upstream.
I was tempted to just walk over and grab a few for dinner, but decided that was a bad plan. I later heard it would have been illegal to do it without a rod and lures specifically for that water. I also don’t have a fishing license.
We snapped a few pics and even a short video and headed back toward the tunnel that goes west on the hour. We had to cross the railroad tracks at the end of the rail yard, and of course there was a long freight train blocking the only way out. It was going forward and backing up to add more and more cars; and as it turned out, when we finally got to cross the track, the train was given the right-of-way to enter the tunnel while we waited in line.
I took a video of it, but its probably 5 minutes long, so I will post it on YouTube so it can be watched.
There is a decrepit building at the extreme west end of town that looks like a Soviet era barracks, and it turned out to be an old army building. Very creepy looking with all the windows missing. Hopefully it’s not considered an historical landmark so they can tear it down someday.
Here is the link to the video: Whittier Train heading into the Tunnel.