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The tunnel was 157 meters long. Nitroglycerin was first used in 1867 to excavate the Hoosac Tunnel in North Adams, Massachusetts. That same year, Swedish physicist Alfred Nobel patented another ...

BOSTON, Dec. 15.--The report of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel to the Governor and Council, showing the operation of the Commonwealth's railroad, gives the total income at $ ...

Boston's Sumner Tunnel will close temporarily beginning at 11 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21 until 5:00 the next morning on Wednesday, Jan. 22, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said.

BOSTON - An earthquake just off the Maine coastline on Monday could be felt in Boston and hundreds of miles away into Connecticut and Vermont, according to a "shake map" from the United States ...

About an hour before, in another news conference in the city, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told media that flooding of the sort seen in the Ted Williams Tunnel “is the new normal the entire region i ...