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 the 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 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.
* A rare fixed rolling pin - On a suitcase near the Taft Tunnel entrance.
==Notes==
* In the tunnels, Enclave soldiers will ambush the player character from apparently inaccessible catwalks. There are several means by which to reach these catwalks, which will allow one to loot the otherwise unreachable bodies and kill the soldiers waiting at the second ambush point before they notice. See the discussion page for details.
* The tunnel can't be reached before the final steps of the quest The Waters of Life.
* It seems the Jefferson Memorial access to the tunnel is no longer available with Broken Steel.
* Attempting to use the Citadel access to reach the Jefferson Memorial does not work, as the path to the Jefferson Memorial entrance when entering from the Citadel end is blocked by a locked door that says it's activated elsewhere.
* After The Waters of Life quest, one can get back in by going back inside and picking the Very Hard lock on the metal door near the Brotherhood of Steel Knight. If Garza is told to stay, he will still be there.
* During The Waters of Life when the player character is escorting Madison Li and the others through the doorway leading up to the door that Madison must unlock, it is always a possibility that any one person (and perhaps others, including companions) can become sealed behind the doorway. This is not a bug as the door is scripted to close when the player character reaches a set distance away, meaning if for any reason someone is hanging behind they will become trapped, unless Madison is trapped one can just leave them there, but to free them you must reload and make sure everyone comes through.
==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.
==Bugs==
==Gallery==
Fo3 Taft tunnels scenery.jpg
Fo3 Taft_tunnels scenery2.jpg
Fo3 TT Quantum.jpg|Nikola Tesla and You and the Quantum
Fo3 TT Chinese_Army.jpg|Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual
Fo3 Taft tunnels_tortiseshell_glasses.jpgTortiseshell glasses
Taft Tunnel Eyebot helmet.jpg|Eyebot helmet
Fo3 Taft tunnels tortiseshell glasses.jpg| Tortiseshell glasses
Taft_tunnels_with_ghouls.jpg|Plenty of feral ghouls inhabit the Taft Tunnels
Taft Tunnel bottlecap mine.jpg|Bottlecap mine
Fo3 rolling pin Taft Tunnel.jpg|Rolling pin
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