Before Boston's Big Dig
6 January 2001 - 12:00pm
Before Boston started the Big Dig, there was the Hoosac Tunnel -- maybe the biggest tunnel of all time.
This Boston Globe feature allows readers to compare the Big Dig with the original Great Bore: "In this state with a penchant for extreme excavation, the Hoosac Tunnel set the standard for the 19th century -- and maybe for all time. Once the longest tunnel in the country, the almost 20-foot-high railway passage was bored through 4.8 miles of rock under Mount Hoosac in the Berkshires over 24 years."
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The Boston Globe, January 6, 2001
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