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02187aam a2200349Ii 4500 001 DF941D686B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150323s2015 nhuab b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1942155077 020 $a 9781942155072 035 $a (OCoLC)907190249 040 $a BTCTA $b eng $e rda $c BTCTA $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CDX $d CWJ $d UNL $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a TF238 H73 S34x 2015 100 1 $a Schexnayder, Cliff J., $e author. 245 10 $a Builders of the Hoosac Tunnel : $b Baldwin, Crocker, Haupt, Doane, Shanly / $c Cliff Schexnayder, PE. 250 $a First edition 264 1 $a Portsmouth, New Hampshire : $b Peter E. Randall Publisher, $c ââ2015. 300 $a xvi, 645 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 26 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographic references and index. 520 $a [This book] traces the interactions between those who worked to build the Hoosac Tunnel of Massachusetts and those who struggled mightily to hinder its construction. The driving force behind the Tunnel and a thread through the book is Alvah Crocker, paper magistrate from Fitchburg. The first to broach the idea of tunneling the Mountain is the father of American Civil Engineering, Loammi Baldwin Jr., son of the Revolutionary War hero and builder of the Middlesex Canal, Loammi Sr. There is a parade of builders: Herman Haupt, who during the Civil War earned a reputation as Lincoln's railroad man, engineers Thomas Doane and John Brooks, who pushed China merchant turned railroad man John M. Forbes' railroads into Iowa before the Civil War, and finally the Shanly brothers from Canada who achieved daylight through the Mountain. --Publisher. 651 0 $a Hoosac Tunnel (Mass.) $x History. 650 0 $a Railroad tunnels $z Massachusetts. 650 0 $a Railroad tunnels $x Design and construction $y 19th century. 600 10 $a Baldwin, Loammi, $d 1745-1807. 600 10 $a Crocker, Alvah, $d 1801-1874. 600 10 $a Haupt, Herman, $d 1817-1905. 600 10 $a Shanly, Walter, $d 1817-1899. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826040816.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DF941D686B5311E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search