Taft Tunnel

Taft Tunnel is an escape tunnel from the Jefferson Memorial. The exit point is a sewer grate outside the Citadel entrance, just south of the west point of Francis Scott Key Bridge.

Background
These tunnels may have been used as a secret escape route for pre-War political figures occupying the Pentagon, but Chinese weaponry and items, including rifles, pistols, and clothing, alongside a ham radio and other bits of technology, lend credence to it being occupied by Chinese spies.

Layout
The initial tunnel leads to an open room with many feral ghouls and some radioactive barrels. From there, other tunnels open to a room with two doors. The one on the left has a Very Hard terminal that Dr. Li must hack to open the door in front. The door on the left is populated by Enclave soldiers. Once the front door is opened, there is another tunnel with doorways on the left that have nothing of value and a door on the right.

Through the right door is another tunnel that leads down, taking one to another door on the right that leads to a Brotherhood of Steel paladin using a flamer against feral ghouls. From there, head to the right and up the ladder to the entrance of the Citadel.

Notable loot

 * Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual on the desk in the room when you first engage the Enclave soldiers.
 * Rare tortiseshell glasses [sic] are found after encountering feral ghouls for the second time in a medical room next to a skeleton holding jet on the floor as soon as you enter.
 * Nuka-Cola Quantum in the second section of the Taft Tunnel. Found after the second Enclave encounter and the eyebot helmet, next to a portable generator sitting on top of a wooden picnic table.
 * Nikola Tesla and You behind the generator immediately next to the Nuka-Cola Quantum.
 * Bottlecap mine on a workbench, Jefferson Memorial side in the west room with the toxic barrels.
 * Eyebot helmet on a desk just after the second room the player character is ambushed by Enclave soldiers.

Appearances
The Taft Tunnel appears only in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes
The name of the Taft Tunnel is named after President William Howard Taft.

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