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    KML/Hoosac Tunnel KML is from Wikidata The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel) is a 4.75-mile (7.64 km) active railroad tunnel in western...
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    The Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad (HTW) was an interstate shortline railroad running north–south between southwestern Vermont and northwestern...
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    to have been built was used in 1853 during the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel in northwest Massachusetts. Made of cast iron, it was known as Wilson's...
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    across northern Massachusetts, United States, leading to and through the Hoosac Tunnel. The Fitchburg was leased to the Boston and Maine Railroad in 1900....
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  • Hoosic (redirect from Hoosac)
    Episcopalian private school in Hoosick, New York Hoosac Tunnel, also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel, in Massachusetts Hoosick Street, a street in Troy...
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  • The Hoosac Tunnel was electrified by the Boston & Maine Railroad in May 1911. This was done to speed up trains and to reduce smoke in the tunnel. Electricity...
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    Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is home to the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel, as well as Whitcomb Summit (elevation 2,172 ft or 662 m), the highest...
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  • 4.75-mile-long (7.64 km) Hoosac Tunnel passes through the range. "Hoosac Mountain" . Encyclopedia Americana. 1920. "Hoosac Mountains" . Collier's New...
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    The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway was a railway company that operated in the states of New York and Vermont in the 1880s. At its peak it controlled...
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    Massachusetts North Adams, Massachusetts Hoosac Tunnel Hoosac Tunnel Station Connection with Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad Zoar Station, Massachusetts...
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    line that passes from the north to the east into North Adams and the Hoosac Tunnel. The nearest Amtrak train station, on the Boston-Chicago Lake Shore...
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    many years, and playing an oversight role in the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel. He has been described as a latter-day "Connecticut River God" because...
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  • the first Tunnel Boring machine using Charles Wilson's Patented design (Nos. 14,483 and 17,650). The machine was tried at the Hoosac Tunnel work but after...
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    [citation needed] North Adams was also the headquarters for building the Hoosac Tunnel starting in 1851 and completed in 1874, adding an east–west connection...
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    service to Albany, New York. The railroad notoriously included the Hoosac Tunnel, an expensive and politically controversial project in western Massachusetts...
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    1848 and continuing through the Hoosac Tunnel to connect with Troy, New York, in 1875. The construction of the Hoosac Tunnel was critical in establishing...
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  • Cambridge MBTA Silver Line, bus tunnel, between South Station and Silver Line Way under Fort Point Channel Hoosac Tunnel, rail tunnel, 1875, 4.75 miles (7.64 km)...
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    Tauern Railway Tunnel (1909) 8.37 km (5.20 mi) Connaught Tunnel (1916) 8.08 km (5.02 mi) However, it took the title from the Hoosac Tunnel (1875) 7.64 km...
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    project included raising clearance by two feet in the 4.75-mile (7.64 km) Hoosac Tunnel. The company was criticized for dumping used railroad ties that contain...
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    Railroad and worked on the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts, then the second-longest tunnel in the world. Latrobe died in Baltimore on October...
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  • Retrieved February 28, 2023. Black, Andrew R. (2020). Buried Dreams: The Hoosac Tunnel and the Demise of the Railroad Age. Louisiana State University Press...
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    running. Generally they are duplicated by building a second tunnel. An exception is the Hoosac Tunnel, which was duplicated by enlarging the bore. To reduce...
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    strict alcohol prohibition laws, and oversaw the state takeover of the Hoosac Tunnel construction project. In 1865, he signed legislation establishing the...
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    with the Allegheny Tunnel, opening the line through to Pittsburgh. He was the chief engineer on the five-mile (8 km) Hoosac Tunnel project through the...
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    off its foundations, leaving it on a tilt. Hoosac Tunnel List of long tunnels by type "The Mont Cenis Tunnel". Michigan Argus. 22 September 1871. P. J...
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    founded his shortline operating company in 1938 with the purchase of the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad from his father-in-law, fellow shortline operator...
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  • 1, 1900. This was primarily the main line from Boston west via the Hoosac Tunnel to the Albany, New York, area, with various branches. On December 1...
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  • line of the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway. Today, Canadian Pacific Kansas City owns the line. The Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Railway...
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    Growth in both halves of Adams also was stimulated by the opening of the Hoosac Tunnel in 1875. In the late 1800s, during the expansion of the cotton mills...
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    freight line which passes through the neighboring town of Florida via the Hoosac Tunnel. The nearest regional bus service can be found in North Adams, as can...
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