Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866

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Tappan Wentworth. Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866

REPORT

Divisions of the Work. East End

The Central Shaft

West Shaft

Water in the Tunnel

The New Shaft

The West End

Miscellaneous

The Road between the Tunnel and North Adams

Experiments

The Hanson Machine

The Brooks, Burleigh and Gates Machine

The Burleigh Machine

Experiments with Dr. Ehrhardt's Powder

Experiments with Nitro-Glycerine

Electrical Firing

The Troy and Greenfield Railroad

APPENDIX

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The Joint Standing Committee of 1866 on the Hoosac Tunnel and the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, authorized to visit the tunnel and railroad, examine into the condition and progress of the work, and to report fully the result of such examination respectfully

That since the adjournment of the legislature the Committee in a body visited the tunnel and railroad in June, and again in October, and they continued their examination of the condition and progress of the work by sub-committees in the months of July, August, September, November and December; (one of the examinations being exclusively devoted to the operations on the railroad which were commenced late in October;) the others to the tunnel and the various structures and mechanical operations connected therewith, including an examination of the existing contracts, and an inquiry into the general organization adopted to carry out the laws and purposes of the State in regard to the enterprise.

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The working force at the Central Shaft in July, 1860, was comprised of—

On the first day of November there were employed at this point, in all, 81. Of this number, 40 were engaged out of the shaft, and 41 in the shaft.

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