The Hoosac railroad plan was revived when the Boston to Albany trains started running. The Troy-Greenfield Railroad (the T&G) broke ground in North Adams in 1851.

THE BOSTON, HOOSAC TUNNEL AND WESTERN RAILROAD NOT DAUNTED BY AN ADVERSE DECISION ITS PLANS FOR THE FUTURE. Share full article. Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. Jan. 2, 1879; ...

After 20 years, 196 deaths, and nearly $20 million, the final stretch of rock was blown away to complete Western MA's Hoosac Tunnel for railway use in 1874.

A CONSOLIDATION FORBIDDEN.; DECISION AGAINST THE BOSTON, HOOSAC TUNNEL AND WESTERN PROJECT. Share full article. March 3, 1883. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Availing themselves of what has been learned in the prosecution of this work, as well as that of the Mont Cenis Tunnel, carried on in part at the same time, and of our experience in mining during ...

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. (NEWS10) — The historic Hoosac Tunnel remains closed to freight trains after a partial collapse last week. As Pan Am Railways continues assessment and repairs, NEWS10 ABC t… ...

That section once was part of the main line of the former Boston & Maine Railroad, which Guilford Transportation bought out of bankruptcy in 1983. In April, the Pan Am Southern joint venture reopened ...

On Thanksgiving Day in 1874, the last 16 feet of solid rock was blasted away to link the two sections of the Hoosac Tunnel that had been started on opposite sides of the Hoosac Mountain Range in ...

The tunnel was so tiny (2.2 meters wide by 3.6 meters high), barges had to be "legged" from end to end. This meant that men lay on their backs on the barge deck and pushed the barge through by ...

A sightseeing train is set to travel through the historic - and some say haunted - Hoosac Tunnel. Rather than a picturesque ride through Pennsylvania, Amtrak's third annual Autumn Express will ...