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The
last passenger train was passing through Burlington’s north
end on this day in 1938...underground.
In
1861, some 77 years earlier, Daniel C. Linsley had been hired as
a civil engineer to construct a 340-foot tunnel under what would
become North Avenue in Burlington. It was a necessary component
to handle the intense rail travel in the Queen City.
At
its height, the railroad tunnel was used by eleven different trains
each day, delivering passengers to their destinations. The public
found other methods of transportation in the early 1900s, particularly
cars and buses. By 1938, the railroad tunnel saw no more passenger
trains.
Image
courtesy Central Vermont Railroad Volume One, 1830-1886
by Robert C. Jones.
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This shows an early train coming through the tunnel
under today's North Avenue in Burlington.
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