Transcriber's Notes: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Notation for whole and fractional part is 55-416/1000 * * * * * SENATE...... ......No. 59. ======================================== REPORT ON THE HOOSAC TUNNEL AND TROY AND GREENFIELD RAILROAD, BY THE JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE OF 1866. ----- BOSTON: WRIGHT & POTTER, STATE PRINTERS, NO. 4 SPRING LANE. 1867. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hon. JOSEPH A. POND, _President of the Senate_. SIR:--I herewith transmit to the legislature the Report of the Joint Standing Committee of 1866 on the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad. I am very respectfully Your obedient servant, TAPPAN WENTWORTH, _Chairman_. REPORT. The Joint Standing Committee of 1866 on the Hoosac Tunnel and the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, authorized to visit the tunnel and railroad, examine into the condition and progress of the work, and to report fully the result of such examination respectfully REPORT: That since the adjournment of the legislature the Committee in a body visited the tunnel and railroad in June, and again in October, and they continued their examination of the condition and progress of the work by sub-committees in the months of July, August, September, November and December; (one of the examinations being exclusively devoted to the operations on the railroad which were commenced late in October;) the others to the tunnel and the various structures and mechanical operations connected therewith, including an examination of the existing contracts, and an inquiry into the general organization adopted to carry out the laws and purposes of the State in regard to the enterprise.