RJ CORMAN RESTORING THE OLD FORT LOOPS PT8 NORFOLK SOUTHERN
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RJ CORMAN RESTORING THE OLD FORT LOOPS PT8 NORFOLK SOUTHERN. The Swannanoa Gap Tunnel, a 1,832-foot-long railway tunnel through Swannanoa Mountain near Asheville, was completed on 11 Mar. 1879. The tunnel was largely built by imprisoned African Americans from across the state. According to the 1887 reports to the North Carolina Bureau of Labor Statistics, "the state's convict labor crews were overwhelmingly dominated by black men who in most cases had only been convicted of minor infractions of the law." Due to the use of explosives many cave-ins occurred throughout construction, killing at least 300 people. The tunnel, which cost about $120,000 to build, was cut with the help of nitroglycerine, marking an early use of the explosive in engineering.
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