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Book Description of Hoosac Tunnel  North Adams  Mass

Download or read book Description of Hoosac Tunnel North Adams Mass written by and published by . This book was released on 1875* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Hoosac Tunnel

Download or read book History of the Hoosac Tunnel written by Edward Sandford Martin and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Hoosac Tunnel

Download or read book History of the Hoosac Tunnel written by Orson Dalrymple and published by North Adams, Mass. : O. Dalrymple. This book was released on 1879 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Hoosac Tunnel

Download or read book History of the Hoosac Tunnel written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Facts and Figures Concerning the Hoosac Tunnel

Download or read book Facts and Figures Concerning the Hoosac Tunnel written by John J. Piper and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Hoosac Tunnel

Download or read book History of the Hoosac Tunnel written by Orson Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hoosac Tunnel 1862 1863

Download or read book Hoosac Tunnel 1862 1863 written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of various reports and speeches concerning the Hoosac Tunnel, bound together in a library binding.

Book Abandoned NYC

    Book Details:
  • Author : Will Ellis
  • Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
  • Release : 2015-02-28
  • ISBN : 9780764347610
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Abandoned NYC written by Will Ellis and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Manhattan and Brooklyn's trendiest neighbourhoods to the far-flung edges of the outer boroughs, Ellis captures the lost and lonely corners of New York. Step inside the New York you never knew, with 200 eerie images of urban decay

Book Hoosac Tunnel

Download or read book Hoosac Tunnel written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of various reports and speeches concerning the Hoosac Tunnel, bound together in a library binding.

Book Hoosac Tunnel 1865 1868

Download or read book Hoosac Tunnel 1865 1868 written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of various reports and speeches concerning the Hoosac Tunnel, bound together in a library binding.

Book Views Of   North Adams  Massachusetts

Download or read book Views Of North Adams Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Gritty Berkshires

Download or read book The Gritty Berkshires written by Maynard Seider and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations of working-class families who have lived in Massachusetts' northern Berkshires, reality looks like Rust Belt America. Maynard Seider, an activist sociologist who has taught and researched in the area for more than three decades, places the history of the North Berkshire region in the context of U.S. and global history.

Book Buried Dreams

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew R. Black
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2020-10-14
  • ISBN : 0807174092
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book Buried Dreams written by Andrew R. Black and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 promise of economic renewal for the commonwealth, and thus is little known today. Andrew R. Black’s Buried Dreams refreshes public memory of the project, explaining how a plan of such magnitude and cost came to be in the first place, what forces sustained its completion, and the factors that inhibited its success. Black digs into the special case of Massachusetts, a state disadvantaged by nature and forced repeatedly to reinvent itself to succeed economically. The Hoosac Tunnel was just one of the state’s efforts in this cycle of decline and rejuvenation, though certainly the strangest. Black also explores the intense rivalry among Eastern Seaboard states for the spoils of western expansion in the post‒Erie Canal period. His study interweaves the lure of the West, the competition between Massachusetts and archrival New York, the railroad boom and collapse, and the shifting ground of state and national politics. The psychic makeup of Americans before and after the Civil War heavily influenced public perceptions of the tunnel; by the time it was finished, Black contends, the indomitable triumphalism that had given birth to the Hoosac had faded to skepticism and cynicism. Anticipated economic benefits never arrived, and Massachusetts eventually sold the tunnel for only a fraction of its cost to a private railroad company. Buried Dreams tells a story of America’s reckoning with the perils of impractical idealism, the limits of technology to bend nature to its will, and grand endeavors untempered by humility.

Book The Hoosac Tunnel Murders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris H. Wondoloski
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-03-12
  • ISBN : 9781508526407
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book The Hoosac Tunnel Murders written by Chris H. Wondoloski and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hoosac Tunnel Murders begins when seventeen-year old Ginger O'Leary is driven from her bed in the dead of night by a vision of murder within the depths of the "bloody pit." Terrified by what she has experienced, Ginger could little know that this gift from her ancestors would not only set her on the path of self-discovery, but also a quest to secure justice for the victims. It's 1865 and two Massachusetts railroads are competing for an exclusive route across the state to Troy, New York and the emerging markets of Chicago and the west. However, a mountain range nearly five miles wide at its base blocks completion of the northern route. Since 1852 the plan has been to blast a hole through what engineers called the Hoosac Tunnel and workers sardonically named the "bloody pit." So far, all the project had accomplished was to devour money invested in it, ruin careers of engineers who designed it and kill many of the men who worked on it. When a nitroglycerine blast kills two men and injures one, another accident is assumed. But the haunting of Ginger by souls of the men crushed and ripped apart in the blast told a different story. The injured man may have been a friend, but he was also their murderer! But, why? Just when Constable Captain Charles O'Leary, Constable Sergeant CJ Mulcahy and Ginger are about to get an answer they find an empty cell and are confronted with the probability that some very powerful people did not want that question answered. But, these people haven't met Ginger O'Leary and the power of An Dara Sealladh. They also haven't met Doctor Samuel N. Briggs and his motley crew of almost criminals who assist Ginger, her Da and her two loves in ferreting out the truth.

Book The Hoosac Tunnel Route Compared with the Western Railroad

Download or read book The Hoosac Tunnel Route Compared with the Western Railroad written by Alfred R. Field and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hoosac Tunnel

Download or read book The Hoosac Tunnel written by Francis William Bird and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Facts And Figures Concerning The Hoosac Tunnel

Download or read book Facts And Figures Concerning The Hoosac Tunnel written by John J. Piper and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Facts and Figures Concerning the Hoosac Tunnel" by John J. Piper is a comprehensive exploration of one of the most ambitious engineering projects of the 19th century. As an authoritative voice in the field of civil engineering, Piper meticulously documents the construction and operation of the Hoosac Tunnel, offering readers a wealth of detailed information and insightful analysis. In this meticulously researched work, Piper delves into the technical challenges, innovative solutions, and human stories behind the creation of the Hoosac Tunnel. From the initial planning stages to the completion of the monumental project, Piper provides readers with a fascinating glimpse into the world of 19th-century engineering and construction. Through a combination of factual data, historical anecdotes, and firsthand accounts, Piper brings the Hoosac Tunnel to life, capturing the spirit of ingenuity and perseverance that characterized its construction. He explores the geological obstacles, financial setbacks, and labor disputes that plagued the project, offering valuable lessons for future generations of engineers and historians alike.