Blood in the Mountain: The Brutal Excavation of the Hoosac Tunnel

Long before the Panama Canal, American engineers faced an impossible task: boring a five-mile hole through the solid, unforgiving granite of the Berkshire Mountains. The Hoosac Tunnel project was supposed to be a triumph of railroad expansion. Instead, it became a multi-decade slaughterhouse, claiming the lives of nearly two hundred men. This book uncovers the brutal, experimental origins of mod...