July 15, 2011: Manhattanhenge

[CaliforniaMama]

I never would have imagined a City city planner would plan for something like this. Especially in the late 1800's.

On second thought, I wonder why this wasn't ritualized and passed on down through the years.

[Wombat]

Originally Posted by CaliforniaMama

I never would have imagined a City city planner would plan for something like this. Especially in the late 1800's.

In England there is a railway tunnel two miles long, completed in 1841, and on the engineer's birthday the rising sun shines directly through the tunnel's entire length. It's the Box Hill Tunnel and the engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel.