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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Light shines through both portals

Becky Bosshart
Appeal Staff Writer

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Copyright 2012 Nevada Appeal. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Nevada Appeal January, 17 2007 10:41 pm

Light shines through both portals

Kelly Thompson, of Pinehurst, Idaho, a driller with Hardrock Tunnel Contractors Inc., of Vancouver, Canada, works to stabilize the walls of V&T tunnel No. 2. by bolting wire mesh to the interior rock walls Wednesday.
Kelly Thompson, of Pinehurst, Idaho, a driller with Hardrock Tunnel Contractors Inc., of Vancouver, Canada, works to stabilize the walls of V&T tunnel No. 2. by bolting wire mesh to the interior rock walls Wednesday.ENLARGE
Kelly Thompson, of Pinehurst, Idaho, a driller with Hardrock Tunnel Contractors Inc., of Vancouver, Canada, works to stabilize the walls of V&T tunnel No. 2. by bolting wire mesh to the interior rock walls Wednesday.
Chad Lundquist / Nevada Appeal
Railroad workers started cutting through the andesite hill near American Flat 139 years ago. It took them about a year to cut through 500 feet, that w...

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