Tunnel du Hoosac
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Le tunnel du Hoosac (en anglais: Hoosac Tunnel) est un tunnel ferroviaire de 7,64 km de longueur, traversant les monts Hoosac d'ouest en est, entre Florida[1] et North Adams[2] dans le Massachusetts. On le doit, en particulier, à l'industriel et entrepreneur américain, Alvah Crocker, et à sa compagnie, la Fitchburg Railroad. Les travaux commencèrent en 1851 et s'achevèrent en 1875. À cette date, il était le second plus long tunnel au monde, après celui du Mont-Cenis (13,7 km) dans les Alpes françaises.
Notes et références
Sources
- (en) « The Hoosac Tunnel » in Anthony J. Bianculli, Trains and technology : the American railroad in the nineteenth century, Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, 2001. (ISBN 9780874137293)
- (en) Carl R Byron, A pinprick of light : the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and its Hoosac Tunnel, Brattleboro, Vt. : S. Greene Press, 1978. (ISBN 9780828903240)
- (en) North Adams Historical Society, History of the Hoosac tunnel. No. Adams, Mass. : O. Dalrymple, 1880. (OCLC 15586258)
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