WTEN

Partially collapsed Hoosac Tunnel was an 1800s engineering feat

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (NEWS10) — The historic Hoosac Tunnel remains closed to freight trains after a partial collapse last week. As Pan Am Railways continues assessment and repairs, NEWS10 ABC took a ...
The Berkshire Eagle

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

Election Day was calm in in the town of Florida, with two town halls serving as polling places for 327 registered voters.
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 ...
insider.si.edu

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 ...
insider.si.edu

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: ...