Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands with Mayor C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake City. In Denver, 50 miles away, citizens rejoiced. Some thought that the six-mile Moffat Tunnel, longest railroad bore in the U. S., would soon be ready for snorting locomotives. They were wrong. Only the smaller pioneer bore,† running parallel with the railroad tunnel, was completed last week...
...tunnel, named after David H. Moffat, famed railroad builder, is scheduled for completion in August. It will be used by the Denver & Salt Lake Railroad and probably leased to the Burlington and other lines. It shortens the route between Denver and Salt Lake City by 176 miles, cuts a 4% grade to 2%. Tunnels are usually thought of as underground things. The Moffat Tunnel is up in the air to the extent of 9,000 feet above sea level; but it is still 4,000 feet below the summit of James Peak. Drillers and dynamiters have been at work...
...Oxford Street will be ready for the mason's hand in two weeks, it was learned yesterday through the contractors who are at present engaged in excavating the plot for the foundations. The laboratory, or more properly the new Chemistry Group, will consist of two buildings connected by a tunnel. The first and larger of these is to go up on Oxford Street between the New Lecture Hall and the University Museum, while the second will be immediately behind it on Frisbie Place...
...were held previous to the opening football game of the season with Norwich. The building is a three story structure of Colonial design harmonizing with the red brick gymnasium beside which it stands. The Field House has two entrances to Memorial Field for the use of the teams. A tunnel leads from the quarters for visiting teams in the basement, while an iron gate directly above allows the Dartmouth teams to enter the field from their quarters on the first floor. The second story contains additional lockers, a lecture room for the coaches, as well as coaches' living quarters...
...tunnel of Ricken, in Switzerland, last week, a freight train stopped, filled the air with dense, deadly carbon monoxide gas; nine railroad workers, trapped, suffocated...