Download or read book Report of the Joint Special Committee on the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad written by Massachusetts. General Court Joint Special Committee on the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad written by Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Commissioners Upon the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel written by Massachusetts. Commissioners on Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hoosac Tunnel written by Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company and published by Boston : Thurston, Torry, and Emerson. This book was released on 1853 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Rail Road written by Daniel Lester Harris and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Report of the Manager of the Troy Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel written by Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report of the Manager of the Troy Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel written by Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866 written by Tappan Wentworth and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report of the Commissioners Upon the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel to His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable the Executive Council of the State of Massachusetts February 28 1863 written by John W ..... Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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 253 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.

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Download or read book The Committee on the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel to Whom was Referred that Part of the Message of the Governor Relative Thereto Report Further Thereon as Follows written by Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Committee on Troy and Greenfield Railroad Company and Hoosac Tunnel and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Report of Benj H Latrobe Consulting Engineer on the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel written by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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