Completed in 1875, the Hoosac Tunnel was known to those who built it as the bloody pit owing to the 195 people that were killed during its construction.

Today the tunnel - once the longest rail tunnel in the United States - is no longer in use. But the stories, and perhaps a little more, still linger...

Written by Neil McRobert and produced by Richard MacLean Smith

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