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The Israel Washburn Tunnel is the longest tunnel in the state of Maine and is only a few miles from Collinsport. Tony Peterson travel by train through this tunnel when returning from Boston to Collinsport. (TLS)

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  • The Israel Washburn Tunnel is the longest tunnel in the state of Maine and is only a few miles from Collinsport. Tony Peterson travel by train through this tunnel when returning from Boston to Collinsport. (TLS)
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  • The Israel Washburn Tunnel is the longest tunnel in the state of Maine and is only a few miles from Collinsport. Tony Peterson travel by train through this tunnel when returning from Boston to Collinsport. (TLS) The construction of this tunnel began in 1851. It cost 25 million dollars to build, and took 800 men 25 years to finish it. It is nicknamed “The Bloody Pit” on account of all the deaths associated with it. During its construction it claimed 197 lives. It is about 6 miles long. In 1895, there was a crash during the week of Thanksgiving. At that time there was only one train track running through it. The signalman, named George Washington Fuller, had a heart attack and died at 38 years old, causing two trains to go into the tunnel at the same time. The two trains, one from Boston to Bangor and another from Bangor to Providence, carrying 237 people between them crashed into each other causing a big explosion and some of the tunnel wall to collapse. 131 of the passengers came out alive, and only 70 bodies where found. Meaning 36 were never accounted for.
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