Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinematic art. The effect of the really fine photography tends to be destroyed by overemphasis. Much of the acting is of the strong, silent variety, although not obvious mugging. There is a thunderstorm scene where the lightning blinds you and the sound effects resemble those of a Coney Island Tunnel of Horrors, Yet the final impression is a good...
...Francisco side, the motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist the mightiest earthquake ever known...
Possibly not an alert railroad but an interesting one is the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington...
...natives as the Hoot, Toot and Whistle) which last month let excursionists ride in the locomotive cab, fire the 44-year-old engine, ride on the top of cars for 22 of its 24 miles of track up the Deerfield River valley from the east portal of the Hoosac Tunnel...
...trouble started when light bulbs of too large a size were used in Widener Library, thus overloading the underground transformer, nestling in the steam-tunnel between Widener, Weld, and Boylston which steps down the "juice" from 2300 to 110 volts. The company's automatic temperature recorder showed that the machine was getting too hot, and accordingly it was decided that an extra one would have to be installed to take care of the added load...