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	BUILDING BIG: Databank: Hoosac Tunnel
		In March 1853, one of the earliest tunnel boring machines ground 10 feet into the Hoosac Mountain and died, never to run again.
		In 1866, two tunnel blasting tools -- nitroglycerin and the compressed air drill -- were used in the Hoosac for the first time.
		The Hoosac Tunnel remains a landmark in hard-rock tunneling.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/hoosac.html (292 words)

	Hoosac Tunnel
		The Hoosac Tunnel, a railroad tunnel beneath the Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachusetts, is said to be one of the most haunted places in New England.
		The Hoosac Tunnel was first proposed in 1819 as an underground canal beneath the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts as a way of providing the through traffic of goods and raw materials between Boston and points West.
		When the Hoosac tunnel was officially opened on October 13, 1875, with the transit of a passenger car of tourists, it was the one of the longest tunnels in the world at 4.82 miles, second only to Mont Cenis in the Swiss Alps which opened 4 years earlier and was 8.5 miles long.
	www.boudillion.com /hoosac/hoosac.htm (5898 words)

	The Beacon Online: February 1, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The tunnel runs 5 miles underneath the Berkshire mountain range and remains the longest underground tunnel east of the Rockies.
		Ghostly legends surrounding the Hoosac Tunnel are nothing new, they have prevailed since the 1850's when miners began chipping away at the jagged rocks of Hoosac Mountain.
		She said, "I have only been in the tunnel once accompanied by a railroad official, and can attest to the claim that it is an eerie place.
	beacon.mcla.mass.edu /2001/02.01/f_tunnel.htm (1403 words)

	Hooac Tunnel Historical Notes
		The Hoosac Tunnel was controversial from its inception, and was fought over contentiously in the press and in the Massachusetts legislature, but upon completion it was celebrated as a triumph of engineering and vision.
		From 1876 to 1885 the Hoosac Tunnel and the T andG Railroad were operated by the state, but in 1887 both were bought by the Fitchburg Railroad.
		In November 27, 1973 the Hoosac Tunnel Historical Association dedicated a plaque in the city of North Adams in honor of the 195 workers who died during the construction of the tunnel.
	www.naplibrary.com /HTHistoricNotes.html (2165 words)

	bellairsia : index
		The city of Hoosac is an amalgamation of Winona, Minnesota, where Bellairs lived (1963-65) while teaching at the now-defunct College of Saint Teresa, as well as his hometown of Marshall, Michigan.
		We've deduced that the word Hoosac has its orgins in Massachusetts, specificially an Algonquian word for "place of stones." In western Massachusetts is the Hoosac Mountain range, itself a part of the Appalachian Mountain range, that contains the Hoosac Tunnel, a 4.75-mile-long railroad tunnel running running east-west.
		The melting snow, combined with heavy rain that spring, led to the danger of flooding in Hoosac; the last bad flood was said to have been in 1915.
	www.bellairsia.com /h/h_hoosac_mn.html (518 words)

	Boston.com / Latest News / Region
		In this state with a penchant for extreme excavation, the Hoosac Tunnel set the standard for the 19th century -- and maybe for all time.
		Once the longest tunnel in the country, the almost 20-foot-high railway passage was bored through 4.8 miles of rock under Mount Hoosac in the Berkshires over 24 years.
		The Hoosac Tunnel was conceived as a way to connect Boston with growing trade along the Erie Canal via a new rail line across the northern tier of Massachusetts.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/06/big_dig.htm (934 words)

	The History of the Hoosac Tunnel
		It is blasted from under the Hoosac Mountain which lies in between the Deerfield River on the east and the Hoosic River on the west.
		The Hoosac Tunnel goes all the way back to 1819 when it was originally proposed as a portion of a canal system running from Boston to Albany.
		The tunnel lay at 2400 feet deep on the east end, 610 feet on the west end, and 518 feet of westward tunneling coming from the West Shaft.
	www.hoosactunnel.net /history.php (3394 words)

	Ghosts of the Bloody Pit!
		Owens came to the tunnel on a night in June 1872 and was accompanied by James R. McKinstrey, a drilling operations superintendent.
		Joe believed that her death was connected to his failure to journey to the Hoosac Tunnel.
		Throughout the 1970’s and the 1980’s, the tunnel began to be investigated by ghost hunters and paranormal groups who had heard of the long history of hauntings.
	www.prairieghosts.com /hoosac.html (2461 words)

	Hoosac Tunnel - Florida, Massachusetts 01247 - Berkshire County - The Berkshires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hoosac Tunnel - Florida, Massachusetts 01247 - Berkshire County - The Berkshires
		The eastern gate to the Hoosac Tunnel is found in Florida along the Deerfield River.
		One of the great engineering feats of the 19th century, the tunnel cost $21,241,842 and 196 lives, and took 22 years to complete.
	www.berkshireweb.com /themap/florida/tunnel.html (64 words)

	Hoosac Tunnel - The Mohawk Trail
		The tunnel is so often spoken of and is so well known, that the railroad line running through it is very frequently spoken of as the Hoosac Tunnel Route.
		In 1855 the work was commenced, but the first attempts seem to have been made in a rather half-hearted way; for the greatness of the undertaking was discouraging, and then, too, it was still an open question who should assume the responsibility and raise funds sufficient to carry out the plans.
		ID fact, the first part of the work was that of sinking a shaft from the summit to the proposed centre of the tunnel, and this was naturally called the central shaft, and by means of it a very perfect,system of ventilation was secured.
	www.berkshireweb.com /mohawktrail/hoosac.html (707 words)

	The Bridge Line Historical Soceity - Hoosac Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When an eastbound train enters the tunnel at the at the west portal it pushes a slug of air ahead of it that results in a sudden surge of cold draft accompanied by the sound of the train all the way at the other end.
		At the tunnel the RR crosses the Deerfield for the last time, immediately crosses the 2-lane road, which is still shadowing the river, at a grade crossing and dives into the side of the mountain range.
		It was I would say 300 yards or so from the tunnel mouth to the grade crossing and the first third of that was in a narrow rock cut bounded on the south by the mountain and on the north by a masonry retaining wall.
	www.bridge-line.org /blhs/HoosacTunnel.html (7318 words)

	Hoosac Tunnel - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		The tunnel was one of the greatest undertakings of the region and work was started on it in 1851.
		There is no information to suggest why the two men came to the tunnel on the last night of June 25, but one might guess that it was in search of the ghosts who allegedly haunted the shaft.
		She wrote that she was accompanied to the tunnel by a railroad official in 1984 and while there, had the uncomfortable sensation of someone standing close to her.
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=12535 (2660 words)

	Hoosac Tunnel
		This rail tunnel through the Berkshires, completed in 1875, connected eastern Massachusetts to the industrial and transportation centers in upstate New York and the Great Lakes.
		At the time of completion it was the longest tunnel in the world, at 4.75 miles, and nearly 200 lives were lost during its 25 years of construction, mostly Chinese laborers from San Francisco.
		It was also the first tunnel project to utilize nitroglycerine to blast, and compressed air to drill.
	ludb.clui.org /ex/i/MA3150 (92 words)

	New England Depot - HOOSAC TUNNEL
		The famous Hoosac Tunnel is located in western Massachusetts.
		At the time of completion in 1877, the Hoosac was the longest tunnel in the world.
		The B&M electrified the line through Hoosac in order to lower the fumes train crews and passengers had to endure during the steam era.
	www.newenglanddepot.homestead.com /hoosac.html (218 words)

	No. 2109 The Hoosac Tunnel
		The Tunnel solved a 19th century trade problem: The Erie Canal carried goods from the west to Troy, New York.
		A Hoosac canal tunnel was proposed in 1819, even before the Erie Canal was finished and before America had seen her first locomotive.
		The man by the river, Hoosac Tunnel expert Jerry Kelly, points to a mountaintop where he's set a flag on the tunnel survey reference point.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi2109.htm (633 words)

	Hoosac Tunnel Ghosts
		One of the most popular legends is that of the haunting of the Hoosac Tunnel at North Adams.
		The digging of this railroad tunnel is a saga of blood, sweat and tears.
		By the time the tunnel was finished, two hundred men had lost their lives in what came to be known as "the bloody pit." Most died in explosions, fires, and drownings, but one death may
	www.hoosacma.com /ghost.php (2106 words)

	No. 1388: A Short Discourse on Tunneling
		In 525 BC the Greeks cut a six-foot square water supply tunnel, two-thirds of a mile long, on the island of Samos.
		Take Marc Brunel's tunnel under the Thames River: Brunel was first to work in the really soft soil under a river.
		The star-crossed Hoosac Tunnel through a mountain in western Massachusetts began as a canal tunnel in 1851.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1388.htm (542 words)

	Hoosac Tunnel Ghosts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Hoosac tunnel which was five miles long tunnel was finished on Thanksgiving Day of 1873.
		The tunnel claimed the life of 195 workers by the time of its completion.
		It is said that on March 20, 1865 two explosive experts had lay down a gigantic nitro charge when one of their co-workers, Ringo Kelley, ignited it prematurely.
	www.paralumun.com /ghosttunnel.htm (104 words)

	The Bloody Pit - Ghosts - Supernatural Message Boards
		Instead, I try to calm myself by reciting some of the factoids I gleaned from my web search earlier in the day: "The Hoosac Tunnel in Florida, Mass., is one of the great engineering feats of the 19th century.
		That last stat has my heart pumping, but I continue: "The Hoosac Tunnel is thought to be one of the most haunted places in New England.
		Mulvaney led a team of horses pulling a wagon into the tunnel in the fall of 1875.
	www.ghostvillage.com /ghostcommunity/index.php?showtopic=4304 (702 words)

	The Hoosac Tunnel, Florida - North Adams Massachusetts.
		For those unfamiliar, The Hoosac Tunnel is a railroad tunnel in the Northern Berkshire towns of Florida and North Adams owned by Guilford Transportation.
		It runs under the Hoosac range of mountains for a total length of 25,031 feet or 4.74 miles.
		There are also diagrams of the tunnel, as well as a walk in excursion of the inside of the tunnel.
	www.hoosactunnel.net (713 words)

	AGNI \| Fiction \| Online \| 2005 \| 'Light at the End of the Tunnel' by John J. Clayton
		Or else the children were there in the tunnel when the train roared through, and in terror pressed up against the wall, and one, then another, was sucked into the train as if the tunnel were the tube of a giant vacuum cleaner, and others were suffocated by carbon monoxide from the diesel exhaust.
		Until they brought the railroad through the Rockies, the Hoosac was the longest tunnel in America, four and a half miles eastern to western ends.
		And somewhere in the last mile of the tunnel the children feel the vibration and the pressure of air; there is no roar until the train is upon them.
	www.bu.edu /agni/fiction/online/2005/clayton.html (1748 words)

	~ Fitchburg through to New York ~
		the Western tunnel occurring on the - 27th of November, 1873.
		tunnel drainage system, parts of the tunnel arch were re-bricked
		The Hoosac Tunnel - was used on April 29, 1997 for a special shipment
	home.iprimus.com.au /metzke/Hoosac.html (774 words)

	Transporters By The Tunnel
		Transporters By The Tunnel is a LiMBO Sponsored Campout, Held around the third weekend of July, at Historic Valley Campground in North Adams, Mass.
		The Tunnel is the Hoosac Tunnel, rail tunnel about 4.5 miles long.
		Built in 1874 it was at one time the longest tunnel in the world.
	www.bcn.net /~limbo/Transporter.html (848 words)

	Flower Delivery Hoosac Tunnel MA Massachusetts \|Order Hoosac Tunnel Flowers Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hoosac Tunnel, MA Massachusetts flower delivery is a service provided by Wesley Berry Flowers since 1946.
		Send Hoosac Tunnel, MA Massachusetts florist greetings to any city or state with a Hoosac Tunnel local florist.
		Hoosac Tunnel Thanksgiving flowers, and Hoosac Tunnel Christmas flowers sent near or far.
	www.800wesleys.com /flowers.Hoosac_Tunnel.MA.html (1322 words)

	Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information - - Document #5200312 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The tunnel has been viewed as a collector of the earth's geothermal heat and a seasonal heat storage facility with heat piped to the tunnel in summer from existing facilities at a distance.
		Heated fluid would be transported in winter from the tunnel to users who would boost the temperature with individual heat pumps.
		It was concluded the tunnel is a poor source of geothermal heat.
	www.osti.gov /bridge/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=5200312 (263 words)

	Western Gateway Heritage State Park
		A former railroad yard, this urban park uses historical artifacts and exhibits to bring to life the controversial and danger-filled construction of the Hoosac Tunnel, one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th century.
		The tunnel was dug 4.75 miles through Hoosac Mountain, linking Massachusetts to Albany, NY.
		Imaginative exhibits are designed to reveal the impact that the railroad industry and the Hoosac Tunnel project had on both northern Berkshire County and America.
	www.mass.gov /dcr/parks/western/wghp.htm (435 words)

	Tunnels: Underground Marvels--Technology lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A history of the first tunnel that connected Manhattan Island (New York City) with the rest of New York.
		Definition: An open trench cut in the earth into which a premade tunnel is dropped; once the tunnel is in place, the workers cover it with soil.
		Context: In 1867, dynamite was used to excavate the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts.
	school.discovery.com /lessonplans/programs/tunnels (1490 words)

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		PostCard - MA - Hoosac Tunnel - East Portal - Mass.
		Over Hoosac Tunnel, Mohawk Trail, Bershire Hills, MA
		Hoosac Tunnel - No. Adams, Mass 1903 - Postcards
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