CAI

150 years on, the Hoosac Tunnel tells a story of vision, risk, tragedy beneath the Berkshires

Historian Carl R. Byron recalls the highs and lows of the building of the Hoosac Tunnel. When it was complete, it was the ...
Berkshire Eagle

Eagle Archives, March 31, 1980: Hoosac Tunnel Special chugs into N. Adams for excursions

NORTH ADAMS — The Hoosac Tunnel Special chugged into town 90 minutes late and under drizzly, miserable skies on Saturday, but it still provided the curious and the nostalgic with a trip through the ...
Berkshire Eagle

North Adams: Library hosts art exhibit and Hoosac Tunnel talk

The North Adams Public Library at 74 Church St. will offer a double feature of art and history on Wednesday, Oct. 8. "Form and Figure," an exhibition of paintings and drawings by local artist A.F.
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Hoosac Tunnel : communications of H. Haupt to president and directors of Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company, and to commissioners of Hoosac Tunnel : facts about machinery, &c

At head of title: 1866.
PBS

First used in a tunnel

Gunpowder was first used in 1679, to build an underground section of the Canal du Midi, a canal connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The tunnel was 157 meters long. Nitroglycerin ...

Norfolk Southern railroad sues Voorheesville over halted expansion

The railroad needs a new building as it opens up a route to Worcester, Mass., but the village says the project needs its ...
Trains

NS sues New York town for blocking construction of crew-change facility

Norfolk Southern is suing Voorheesville, N.Y., which has blocked the railroad’s construction of a crew-change facility that will support the shift of its New England intermodal trains to trackage ...
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C. M. W. Hoosac 1874 [Illustration of the entrance of a tunnel with railroad tracks?]

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection Division of Work and Industry Lantern Slide Collection / Series 1: Engineering / 1.17: ...