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150 years on, the Hoosac Tunnel tells a story of vision, risk, tragedy beneath the Berkshires

NEPM’s Carrie Healy recently stood at about 1,900 feet above sea level in Florida, Massachusetts, on a mountain in the Hoosac Range. Nearby is the central shaft. It now provides ventilation to the ...
Berkshire Eagle

North Adams: Author to discuss 'The Gritty Berkshires'

Author Maynard Seider will discuss his book, "The Gritty Berkshires: A People's History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass MoCA," at 6 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at the North Adams Public Library, third ...
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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.
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Report of the fourth [-twentieth] hearing on the Hoosac Tunnel Consolidation, before the Committee on Railways. February 5 [-March 19] 1873

Concerns the building of the Hoosac Tunnel for the Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company. Contains two versions of the 4th hearing; lacks hearings 6 and 16. siris_sil_154772 ...