Salinas River Project, Cuesta Tunnel, Southeast of U.S. 101, San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County, CA
Summary
Significance: The Cuesta Tunnel is important as an example of the heroic engineering and construction undertaken by the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps in the early 1940s as part of the mobilization of American forces prior to World War II. The tunnel was constructed in less than 9 months from planning to use, an astonishing rate of construction given the length and diameter of the tunnel. While not unusually large or long in the general context of tunnels in California, the Cuesta Tunnel is an important example of the work of the Quartermaster Corps and private engineering and construction firms under mobilization conditions.
Survey number: HAER CA-153-A
Building/structure dates: 1942 Initial Construction
Tags
tunnels
san luis obispo calif
salinas
project
salinas river project
cuesta
tunnel
cuesta tunnel
san
luis
obispo
san luis obispo
san luis obispo county
california
barry gill
historic american engineering record
hill leeds
us army corps of engineer
photo
ultra high resolution
high resolution
library of congress
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Leeds, Hill, Barnard, and Jewett, Engineer
U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, Owner
Gill, Barry, transmitter
Location
San Luis Obispo (Calif.)
,
35.39524, -120.62293
Source
Library of Congress
Link
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html