15 DEADLIEST Railroad Tunnels That Buried Their Builders
Long-form28:09People & BlogsPublished Jul 9, 2026, 4:15 PM · 3mo ago
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15 DEADLIEST Railroad Tunnels That Buried Their Builders
In October 1867, thirteen men descend nearly a thousand feet into the central shaft of a tunnel being cut through Hoosac Mountain in Massachusetts. Above them, the hoist house catches fire. The shaft floods. Nobody comes. Their bodies are recovered a year later, huddled together in a side passage where they had waited for a rescue that never arrived.
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- Jul 9, 2026, 4:15 PM
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- 28:09 (1,689 s)
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- Long-form
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