Civil War DESERTER LIVING IN CANADA Cover ALBERT H BAILEY Letter HOOSAC TUNNEL

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Civil War HOOSAC TUNNEL Cover ALBERT H BAILEY Letter DESERTER LIVING IN CANADADO YOU KNOW?Hoosac Tunnel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHoosac Tunnel East Portal, near the Deerfield River (2005) Overview Line PAS Freight Main Line Location Western Massachusetts Status Active System Pan Am Southern Operation Work begun 1851 [1] Constructed 1851–1873 [1] Opened February 9, 1875 [1] Owner Pan Am Southern LLC Operator Springfield Terminal Railway Traffic Train Character Freight Technical Length 25,081 feet (7,645 m) long [1] No. of tracks Single Track gauge 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge Operating speed 25 mph Tunnel clearance 20 feet (6.1 m) [1] Width 24 feet (7.3 m) [1]Hoosac Tunnel U.S. National Register of Historic Places Show map of Massachusetts Show map of the US Show all Location From North Adams on the West to the Deerfield River on the East Coordinates 42°40′30″N 73°2′43″W NRHP reference # 73000294 [2] Added to NRHP November 2, 1973The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel ) is a 4.75-mile (7.64 km) active railroad tunnel in western Massachusetts that passes through the Hoosac Range , an extension of Vermont 's Green Mountains . It runs in a straight line from its east portal, along the Deerfield River in the town of Florida , to its west portal in the city of North Adams .Work began in 1851 [1] under an estimated cost of $2 million and ended in 1875, having consumed $21 million. At its completion, the tunnel was the world's second-longest, after the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) Mont Cenis Tunnel through the French Alps . It was the longest tunnel in North America until the 1916 completion of the Connaught Tunnel under Rogers Pass in British Columbia , [3] and remains the longest active transportation tunnel east of the Rocky Mountains ."Hoosac" is an Algonquian word meaning "place of stones". The tunnel is featured on the second episode of the non-fiction horror podcast Lore. [4]Construction Proposal and beginning The Hoosac Tunnel GuideThe tunnel project was originally proposed in 1819 as a canal to connect Boston to Upstate New York via the Deerfield River on the east of the Hoosac Range and the Hoosic River on the west. That project was shelved, and later reborn as part of the new Troy and Greenfield Railroad . The project was nicknamed "The Great Bore" by its critics, including future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , who said he'd like to "wall up a dozen lawyers at one end of the tunnel and put a good fee at the other."The most important proponent of the northern route and the Hoosac Tunnel was Alvah Crocker , a self-made paper mill owner from Fitchburg, Massachusetts . The Science Channel documentary Driven to Invent: Killer Tunnel called Crocker "The Father of Modern Tunneling" for his influence in advancing the use of geologists, explosives, pneumatic tools and boring technology, and said, "He laid down the rules for tunnel construction even to the present day." [ citation needed ] In 1841, Crocker formed the Fitchburg Railroad (chartered 1842, opened 1845) between Boston and Fitchburg. In 1844 Crocker incorporated the existing Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad , which ran from Fitchburg west to Greenfield , as well as northward (from Millers Falls ) to Brattleboro, Vermont . In 1848 Crocker secured from the legislature a charter for the Troy & Greenfield Railroad (T & G), with provisions for a tunnel through Hoosac Mountain.The first chief engineer of the tunnel project was A.F. Edwards. In 1854, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provided $2,000,000 in credit to Edward Wellman Serrell and Company , which began work in 1855. In 1856, Herman Haupt took over as chief engineer.The Western Railroad , led by Chester W. Chapin , which ran a southern route through Springfield and Pittsfield , opposed the Hoosac Tunnel and its northern route through the state. They successfully lobbied to block state funding of the tunnel in 1861, which bankrupted Haupt and temporarily stopped the project. Haupt had ex... read more

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