Vintage, Unused, color post card, Hoosac RR Tunnel
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This is a vintage, posted, color post card, of the Electrified Hoosac Railroad Tunnel. This post card is very old and predates the 1929 Great Northern Railway's Cascade Tunnel. "Hoosac Tunnel was commenced in 1851 and completed in 1875. The total length 4-3/4 miles long and is the longest tunnel in the United States. Rock excavated 1,900,000 tons. Men employed during construction were about 900. Lives lost 192. Width 24 feet height 20 feet. Equipped with Electoral service 1911." NOTE: The 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 tunnel took over 20 years to complete, and cost $21,000,000 by the time of completion. The project was nicknamed 'The Great Bore' by critics of the day, 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
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