Norfolk Southern next week will shift its Chicago-New England intermodal trains to a faster CSX trackage-rights route east of ...

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 ...

THE observant traveler in our Northern States cannot have failed to notice, within the last few years, as the long trains of freight-cars sweep by him, bow frequently appears, lettered distinctly on ...

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 ...

A young Pittsfield artist has designed a cachet for the Hoosac Tunnel Centennial Committee, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Hoosac Tunnel in North Adams. The centennial ...

Alvah Crocker of Fitchburg petitioned the Legislature in 1848 and gained permission to raise money to build the Troy & Greenfield RR and to dig a connecting tunnel through Hoosac Mountain, a challenge ...

The full story of the construction of the Hoosac Tunnel, one of the greatest engineering feats of the 19th Century, comes to life at the Western Gateway Heritage State Park in North Adams.

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 ...

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