Buried Dreams: The Hoosac Tunnel and the Demise of the Railroad Age
LSU Press, 2020. Hardcover. New tightly bound hardcover with green cloth on boards and gilt lettering to spine in new dust jacket. 8vo. (6 x 0.94 x 9 inches) Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes chronology, index, and illustrations. 248 pp. 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.
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ISBN: 9780807173572
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