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Current web sources report this as fact, but I can't find any sources from the late 19th century mentioning this. Econrad 16:45, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Idumea47b ( talk) 17:05, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
Add External Reference to Mass DCR "Western Gateway Heritage State Park." DonDoughty 23:42, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
What is gradient of Tunnel?
Tabletop 29 June 2005 01:46 (UTC)
I'm not sure if there's an agreed standard on when a railroad tunnel is 'complete.' In the case of the Hoosac tunnel, digging was completed in 1873, but the first train did not pass throug until 1875. Different sources report both 1873 and 1875 as the tunnel completion date. Similar differences exist for the Moffat Tunnel.
I'm going to use the '1st train passing the tunnel' date as the completion date, but I'd like to hear what folks have to say about this. Econrad 29 June 2005 14:27 (UTC)
This is a really interesting article... I wonder if I can suggest, however, that in-line citations be added? Keep up the good work! - Midnightdreary 03:19, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
The tunnel was originally double track but by 2000 was single track. Tabletop ( talk) 10:57, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
I haven't studied this in detail, but there probably are sources citing the Hoosac as the first large-scale use of nitroglycerin as an explosive. These sources may not have been aware of the use of nitroglycerin on Tunnel 6, which was the most difficult of the tunnels at Donner Pass on the Central Pacific Railroad. Some years ago, I read "Empire Express" by David Haward Bain. That book is the definitive source re the use of nitroglycerin at Tunnel 6. Tunnel 6 was holed through in 1867, if I recall correctly. If this is so, Tunnel 6 predates Hoosac as to use of nitroglycerin. However, the Hoosac may have pioneered the use of blasting caps. Oaklandguy ( talk) 02:07, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
Agreed, article should be altered. Not the first commercial use of nitroglycerin.
Also, what constitutes a "large scale" commercial project compared to normal commercial projects? Egger.brian ( talk) 09:44, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
The article presently says, "On March 20, 1865, Ned Brinkman and Billy Nash were buried when foreman Ringo Kelly accidentally set off a blast of dynamite." That may be what the cited source says; but the cited source isn't highly reliable as to details. Dynamite wasn't patented until 1867 and wasn't available in 1865. Furthermore, the first high explosive used at Hoosac was nitroglycerin, rather than the later dynamite. The incident of 1865 is plausible if the explosive then used was black powder, rather than dynamite or nitroglycerin. Oaklandguy ( talk) 17:03, 23 June 2015 (UTC)
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I don't think the Science Channel is a very good source for material, unless it be solid facts or numbers of some sort. To quote them as saying "Crocker is considered by some to be the Father of Modern Tunneling" (or whatever) and to claim he brought in all kinds of innovations and changes is basically just repeating typical TV hyperbole. Crocker was more of a promoter than the guy running the show. The chief engineer was the one doing all the actual work, under contract. The geologists that did work on the project were totally wrong and failed to predict the "demoralized rock" slurry that plagued the whole project, the drills were copied from the work being done on the Alps, etc. Hermann Haupt converted them to run on air and had htem lightened and redesigned, and then they were bought from a third party. By the time the bore was completed, Crocker was off working on another project. to give him all the credit as if he had personally superintended the project is wronging the other men who actually did most of the organizing and worked out the small details such as "how are we actually going to DIG this tunnel". Crocker was more the guy who saw that hte tunnel was needed and found the charter and the money, and verified with geologists (wrong as they were) that a tunnel COULD be dug there. Then he turned it over to Haupt (who basically failed miserably) to do the actually digging. After Haupt went away, Doane became chief engineer, and I beleive he was until the end of the project. It was Doane who brought in the steam/air drills, who tunred to nitroglycerin, who hired Farren and the Shanlys to complete the bore. Giving all the credit to one simple figurehead who can be made to reprent the whole thing is typical of television and their low standards. It will just confuse the audience to try and explain the complex relations that actually existed, so we'll just give all the credit to this guy. Might as well choose the one who promoted the project; who will know the difference, and who's to say that he's NOT "the father of modern tunneling"? What does that even mean? How is it defined?
Idumea47b ( talk) 17:19, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
"hostile bureaucrats hoping to ruin the project" not neutral. -- LaserLegs ( talk) 12:07, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
Since Cornelius Vanderbilt I died in 1877 the Vanderbilt active with the New York Central must be someone elsd. RichardBond ( talk) 04:10, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
"The tunnel construction project required excavation of 2,000,000 tonnes (2,000,000 long tons;"
Metric tonnes are not the same as long tons. Checking with an online converter web site: 2,000,000 metric tonnes equals 1,968,413 long tons. 2,000,000 long tons equals 2,032,093.8 metric tonnes.
Which one is correct? StuZealand ( talk) 21:40, 12 December 2022 (UTC)