[Rarebooks] For Sale: Hoosac Tunnel history & views

[Bob Petrilla]

Massachusetts, North Adams. HISTORY OF HOOSAC TUNNEL: With Illustrations.
>From 1819 to 1911. . North Adams, MA: Sterling Printing Co., 1911. First
Edition. (24)pp; illustrated throughout from photographs. Bound in embossed
tan wrappers, stamped in brown.  5" x 8" Very Good. Original Wrappers.
Photographic views include: Hoosac Tunnel, Western Portal; Eastern Portal;
Freight Train Entering Western Portal; Electric Engine House; New Bridge,
State Street Crossing; Work Train, Putting Up Electric Wires; Largest Oil
Burner in the World - Hauled Trains through Tunnel prior to
Electrification; New Electric Engines. Also, woodcuts made during
construction of Hoosac Tunnel in the 1860s: First Work on Brick Arch at
West End; Tunnel Heading, Showing Drill Carriage; Central Shaft Building;
Miners Coming to Surface in Elevator; Central Shaft at Time of Fire; A
Dining Saloon on Wheels; Converting Room, Mowbray's Tri-nitro-glycerine
Factory; etc. [OCLC locates only one holding: C/W MARS.]  $75.00

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