Buried Dreams: The Hoosac Tunnel and the Demise of the Railroad Age

by Andrew R Black

Book Overview

The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie Canal. The longest tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at the time (4.75 miles), it took nearly twenty-five years (1851‒1875), almost two hundred casualties, and tens of millions of dollars to build. Yet it failed to deliver on its grandiose...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807173576
• ISBN13: 9780807173572
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"