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>>>At over 9 miles long the two track St Gotthard tunnel was the worlds longest at the time, but also the most deadly. The contactor Louis Favre accepted tight bonus and penalty conditions which killed him and 310 of his workers, and seriously invalided another 900. In his desperation to avoid losing money he drove his workers hard in the most appalling conditions of heat, water, suffocating dust and roof collapses, but this did not prevent his family being bankrupted by the enterprise.<<<
It was built from 1872 - 1880 and is 9 miles long...
That's from a web site called "A Short History of Tunnels"... am I bored??? am I bored??? NO!!! 'cause I have the internet to waste my time with... actually, that page about tunnels was from some college engineering course and was quite informative...
.tom
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