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

NEPM’s Carrie Healy recently stood at about 1,900 feet above sea level in Florida, Massachusetts, on a mountain in the Hoosac Range. Nearby is the central shaft. It now provides ventilation to the ...
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Eagle Archives, Nov. 7, 1973: Pittsfield artist designs cachet for Hoosac Tunnel centennial

A young Pittsfield artist has designed a cachet for the Hoosac Tunnel Centennial Committee, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Hoosac Tunnel in North Adams. The centennial ...
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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.
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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 ...
Berkshire Eagle

Eagle Archives, Nov. 4, 1964: There's no waiting to cast votes in Mohawk Trail town of Florida

FLORIDA — It could be said, unfairly of course, that women started the wrangling more than 40 years ago about the Town Hall, and where voting should take place in this small Mohawk Trail town. But ...
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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: ...