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How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River (from HISTORY This Week)

The Bowery Boys: New York City History by Tom Meyers

Feb 20, 202600:34:40Society & Culture

For more historical deep dives just like these, check out HISTORY This Week wherever you get your podcasts! February 14, 1905. A stick of dynamite detonates under the Hudson River — and the ground above swallows a locomo...

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How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River (from HISTORY This Week) is an episode from The Bowery Boys: New York City History by Tom Meyers. For more historical deep dives just like these, check out HISTORY This Week wherever you get...

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How To Dig a Train Tunnel Under the Hudson River (from HISTORY This Week)

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