Directory of Tunnels Resources

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This category is for listing sites about the history of tunnel construction and the engineers that built the tunnels.

Subcategories

• Brunel, Isambard Marc
• Crozet, Claudius
• Sutro, Adolph

Resources in This Category

• Bridge and Tunnel Centres

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AJS2234
  Full text of this 1875 book by John B. McMaster.

• How the Swiss Built the Greatest Tunnel in the World

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1905simplon.asp
  Short contemporary commentary by Francis Fox about the construction of the Simplon tunnel through the Alps completed in 1905.

• London Transport History - Tunnelling

  http://www.ltmcollection.org/museum/gallery/gallery_sub.html?IXgallery=CGP.050.022
  Illustrated commentary on tunnelling methods used in the 19th century.

• Report of the Superintendent of the Sutro Tunnel Company

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AEL2139
  Full text of this document providing detailed reports from the heads of department for the year ending 1873.

• St. Clair Tunnel Company

  http://www.trainweb.org/elso/stclair.htm
  Opened in 1891, running under the St. Clair River, which joins Lake Huron to Lake St. Clair. Includes short history, photographs, and references.

• Standedge Tunnel

  http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/huddersfield/standedge1.htm
  Construction history, restoration details and photo gallery of the longest, highest and deepest canal tunnel in Britain. First opened in 1811.

• Sutro Tunnel

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AGM9155
  Facsimile of the letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of the commission to examine and report upon the Sutro Tunnel, in Nevada. January 9, 1872.

• Sutro Tunnel

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=AEL2141
  Facsimile of the 1872 report of the commissioners and evidence taken by the committee on mines and mining of the House of representatives.

• The Hoosac Tunnel

  http://hoosac.franklinsites.com/index.php
  Comprehensive range of commentary, data, history and construction images.

• The Severn Railway Tunnel

  http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/severn1.htm
  Extensive ten chapter history of the construction. Topics include highs and lows, tunnelling methods, and a collapse in the tunnel. Opened in 1886.

• The Tunnel of Samos

  http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/EandS/articles/LXVII1/samos.html
  Illustrated scholarly essay which discusses the theories about the methods of construction of this ancient water tunnel built in the sixth century B.C.. By Tom M. Apostol.

• Tunnelling Against Time

  http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r004.html
  Illustrated essay on the construction history of the Cascade mountains tunnel completed in 1929.

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