Railway tunnel located in Western Massachusetts, United States
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Hoosac Tunnel
The east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel in 2024
Overview
Line
PAS Freight Main Line
Location
Florida, Massachusetts
Status
Operating
System
Pan Am Southern
Operation
Work begun
1851 (1851)[1]
Constructed
1851–1873[1]
Opened
February 9, 1875 (1875-02-09)[1]
Owner
Pan Am Southern LLC
Operator
Norfolk Southern, CSX Transportation
Traffic
Train
Character
Freight
Technical
Length
25,081 feet (7,645 m) long[1]
No. of tracks
Single
Track gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Operating speed
25 miles per hour (40 km/h)
Tunnel clearance
20 feet (6.1 m)[1]
Width
24 feet (7.3 m)[1]
Hoosac Tunnel
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location
From North Adams on the West to the Deerfield River on the East
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. It runs in a straight line from its east portal, along the Deerfield River in the town of Florida, to its west portal, in the city of North Adams.
Work began in 1851[1] under an estimated cost of $2 million and ended in 1875, having used $21 million. At its completion, the tunnel was the world's second-longest, after the 8.5-mile (13.7 km) Mont Cenis Tunnel through the French Alps. It was the longest tunnel in North America until the 1916 completion of the Connaught Tunnel under Rogers Pass in British Columbia.[3] It remains the longest active transportation tunnel east of the Rocky Mountains, and as of 1989[update] is the sixth-longest railroad tunnel in North America. The American Society of Civil Engineers made the tunnel an Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1975.
"Hoosac" is an Algonquian word meaning "place of stones".
^ abcdefgByron (1995), p. 144.
^"National Register Information System – (#73000294)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). "Hoosac Tunnel" . Encyclopedia Americana.
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