The Hoosac Tunnel (also called Hoosic or Hoosick Tunnel) is a 4.75-mile (7.64 km) active railroad tunnel in western Massachusetts that passes through the Hoosac Range, an extension of Vermont's Green Mountains.

Hoosac Tunnel, railway tunnel that runs through Hoosac Mountain of the Berkshire Hills, east of North Adams, Massachusetts, the first major rock tunnel built in the United States. Hoosac Tunnel was built to provide a rail connection between Boston and upper New York state.

2014年10月18日 · Twenty-four years after work began, the Hoosac Tunnel opened. It quickly became one of the most popular train routes in New England, with 40 trains a day passing through what was then the longest tunnel in the country.

2012年5月28日 · The Hoosac Tunnel is a railway that burrows almost five miles through the Hoosac Mountain Range in western Massachusetts from the towns of North Adams on its west side, to...

2024年8月24日 · The Hoosac Tunnel is a 4.75-mile-long (25,081 feet) active railroad tunnel in western Massachusetts that passes through the Hoosac Range, an extension of Vermont's Green Mountains. Apart from its length, the tunnel stands with a height of approximately 20 feet and a width of 24 feet.

The Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad (HTW) was an interstate shortline railroad running north–south between southwestern Vermont and northwestern Massachusetts. It ran from Wilmington, Vermont to Rowe, Massachusetts, a distance of approximately 25 miles (40 km).

When completed, the Hoosac Tunnel was the largest and longest transportation tunnel in the Western Hemisphere. "When locomotive wheels roll through the Hoosac Tunnel, then order your ascension robes." When first proposed in 1819, the Hoosac Tunnel seemed so logical.

Two million tons of rock were carved out of the Berkshire Mountain range to build the Hoosac Tunnel. Twenty million bricks were used to line the tunnel walls. The Hoosac Tunnel project took...

The Hoosac Tunnel is a place of history, mystery, and death. Located in North Adams, Massachusetts, and travelling 4.5 miles away to Florida, Massachusetts, the railway connected the little valley to much of the other parts of the state.

Detailed account of the history of the Hoosac tunnel project, a feat of engineering that extends between FLorida and Adams, Massachusetts.