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NAPL: The Hoosac Tunnel at 150 Years

Join Carl Byron, author of "A Pinprick of Light: The Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Its Hoosac Tunnel," and co-founder of ...
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 ...
Trains

NS sues New York town for blocking construction of crew-change facility

Norfolk Southern is suing Voorheesville, N.Y., which has blocked the railroad’s construction of a crew-change facility that ...
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.
Berkshire Eagle

North Adams: Library hosts art exhibit and Hoosac Tunnel talk

The North Adams Public Library at 74 Church St. will offer a double feature of art and history on Wednesday, Oct. 8. "Form and Figure," an exhibition of paintings and drawings by local artist A.F.
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 ...
Troy Record

RITTNER: Troy’s Railroad Days, Part 3

Troy had several train stations. The last three “Union Stations” were in the same location and were controlled by the Rensselaer and Saratoga (1832), Troy & Schenectady (1836), Troy & Greenbush (1845) ...
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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: ...