The tunnel was 157 meters long. Nitroglycerin was first used in 1867 to excavate the Hoosac Tunnel in North Adams, Massachusetts. That same year, Swedish physicist Alfred Nobel patented another ...
BOSTON, Dec. 15.--The report of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel to the Governor and Council, showing the operation of the Commonwealth's railroad, gives the total income at $ ...