The Great Bore
A Souvenir Of The Hoosac Tunnel
Forfatter: J.L. Harrison
År: 1891
Forlag: Advance Job Print Works
Sted: North Adams
Sider: 74
UDK: 624.19
A History Of The Tunnel, With Sketches Of North Adams, Its Vicinity And Drives; Williams-Town And Mount Greylock
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THE GREAT BORE.
HISTORY OF THE HOOSAC TUNNEL.
EATED in
a comfort-
ably up-
holstered
chair in a
luxurious-
1 y fitted
car, the un-
in formed
traveller is
not apt to
realize, as
his train plunges
into and through
the Hoosac mountain, the vast amount of laboi, the
great cost, the consummate skill, which the Hoosac
tunnel represents. It stands for twenty-four years
of work, for a cost of 195 üves anc^ fourteen millions
of money, and for one of the greatest tiiumphs of