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Is there a train tunnel under the Detroit River?

The Michigan Central Railway Tunnel is a railroad tunnel under the Detroit River connecting Detroit, Michigan, in the United States with Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. The U.S. entrance is south of Porter and Vermont streets near Rosa Parks Boulevard.



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(But I came back to USA on the Ambassador Bridge.) The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel is 75 feet below the Detroit river. It's interesting to travel through an underwater tunnel to get from our country (USA) to another country (Canada).

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The Michigan Central Railway Tunnel is a railroad tunnel under the Detroit River connecting Detroit, Michigan, in the United States with Windsor, Ontario, in Canada. The U.S. entrance is south of Porter and Vermont streets near Rosa Parks Boulevard.

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You can do so easily from Detroit using either the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel or the Ambassador Bridge. There's also the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron. Really — it's easy.

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The deepest areas are found in the vicinity of the Ambassador Bridge, where the river slightly narrows to a width of about 1,900 feet for a distance of 1-1/2 miles. The southerly or lower reach of the Detroit River is broad, with several islands and shallow expanses.

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Detroit River, river forming part of the boundary between Michigan, U.S. (west), and Ontario, Can. (east), and connecting Lake St. Clair (north) with the west end of Lake Erie (south). The river flows southwest and south for 32 miles (51 km) between Detroit and Windsor, Ont.

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The solution was to bore a tunnel 134-mi long tunnel about 200 ft below the bed of Lake Michigan to provide water to cool and recycle steam from the power plant's turbines.

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