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Hoosac Tunnel | Hoosac Tunnel - Florida and North Adams, MA
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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 ...
Hoosac Tunnel - Wikipedia
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The Hoosac 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 ...
Tunnel clearance: 20 feet (6.1 m)
Operating speed: 25 miles per hour (40 km/h)
Line: PAS Freight Main Line
No. of tracks: Single
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Hoosac Tunnel
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The Hoosac Tunnel is a 4.75-mile 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. WikipediaOpened: 1875
Area: 575Â acres
Added to NRHP: November 2, 1973
Length: 25,081 feet (7,645 m) long
Traffic: Train
Status: Operating
NRHP Reference Number: 73000294
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Hoosac Tunnel – North Adams, Massachusetts
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May 28, 2012 — The Hoosac Tunnel is a railway that burrows almost five miles through the Hoosac Mountain Range in western Massachusetts from the towns of ...
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Visiting the Hoosac Tunnel - Journeys and Jaunts
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Considered the big dig of it's time, the construction of the tunnel was meant to cost $2 million and take a few years to build. They broke ground in 1851. Just ...
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The Hoosac Tunnel Disaster of 1867
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The Hoosac Tunnel disaster killed 13 miners in 1867, but the tunnel took the lives of an estimated 180 workers during decades of construction.
Hoosac Tunnel | Description, History, Construction, & Facts
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Hoosac Tunnel, railway tunnel that runs through Hoosac Mountain of the Berkshire Hills, east of North Adams, Massachusetts, the first major rock tunnel ...
Hoosac Tunnel (Massachusetts) - American-Rails.com
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Jun 19, 2022 — While the Hoosac Tunnel is often identified as being a part of the Boston & Maine Railroad it was not actually built by the well known New ...
Days Gone By: Images of the Hoosac Tunnel from The ...
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Feb 15, 2021 — In 1875, at the time of its completion, the 4.75-mile-long tunnel was the second-longest in the world and the longest tunnel in North America ( ...