This photo came from an estate sale in Waterbury Ct. It appears to be the digging of the Terryville Tunnel; just north of Waterbury on the Highland Division. (C) 1910 It's 3850 Ft. long. 32 Ft. wide. 26 Ft. high. It took 700 workers(day & night shifts) about a year to remove the 4,600,000 cubic feet of earth to complete the tunnel.It's single tracked today.

Photographed by UNKNOWN, 1910.
Added to the photo archive by Stephen Gow, December 28, 2006.
Railroad: New Haven.

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