Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866.

"Report on the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad" by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866, examines the massive undertaking of building the Hoosac Tunnel and the Troy and Greenfield Railroad in the 1800s. This document reveals the investigations and conclusions by the committee, highlighting the financial pitfalls and tough engineering problems that marked the project. The committee lays out the corporation's money issues, the contractors' struggles, and the ongoing construction after the state invested. Readers discover how things like bad money handling and contractors quitting forced the State to step in and take control. Additionally, the report describes the detailed work on the tunnel, the machines used to build it, and how workers were organized, painting a picture of the difficulties behind this bold project.