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June 2, 2016

After 17 years of construction, Switzerland inaugurates $12B rail tunnel as world's longest

  • The 35.4-mile-long Gotthard Railway Tunnel below the Alps also dips a record 1.4 miles underground at one point.
    • By JAMEY KEATEN
    Associated Press

    Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP [enlarge]
    On Wednesday, the first train comes out of the north portal of the Gotthard rail tunnel near Erstfeld, Switzerland.

    Peter Klaunzer/Pool Photo via AP [enlarge]
    Swiss Federal President Johann Schneider-Ammann listens to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the tunnel’s northern portal.


     
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