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I don't know about you, but...
I biked 48 miles yesterday. Yeah, it's an e-bike, but still...
We made it down to the Stewart Tunnel just south of Belleville. The quarter-mile tunnel has a curve that makes its center completely dark.
We biked through the tunnel and back twice — something I can do easily now! — before heading home, via Paoli, where we got some Babcock ice cream at the Paoli Bread and Brat House.
As for the Stewart Tunnel:
Work started on the tunnel on Dec. 13, 1886, with small construction crews starting at both the north and south ends. Some of the workers were local farmers who joined the construction crews to supplement their earnings during the severe drought of 1887. Each worker was paid $1.25 per day....
Hand drills were used to make holes in the limestone for explosives. A hoisting apparatus was built at the north entrance to lift the rock out of the cut and later, two steam shovels were added, the larger one weighing 48 tons. The excavated material on the north end of the tunnel was hauled on horse drawn carts north about one-half mile. A smaller 20-ton steam shovel was used at the south end. The material excavated at the south end was dumped into cars on the little locomotive the workers called "Stella," which pushed the cars out to the Lynn Hollow dump.
In July, the crews got equipment in place for compressed air drills to replace the steam operated drills. In August, a 10-ton, 120-horsepower Mongul boiler arrived for the compressed air machinery. It took 12 men and 12 horses to move the boiler the five miles from Monticello....
Finished in December 1887, it was a feat of the era's engineering that construction from these two ends met exactly in the middle. One side of the tunnel was off by about one inch and the other side was off by less than three-quarters of an inch. Almost perfection....
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