It is no myth that the 28th annual John Henry Days is officially in full swing. John Henry Days is a yearly tradition that ...

The Great Bend Tunnel closed to regular use in 1974, moving all traffic to its parallel sister tunnel (thought to have been dug by the steam-hammer), the Big Bend Tunnel.

Big Bend Tunnel Company; Failure. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine.

A statue of John Henry stands in front of the Big Bend Tunnel in John Henry Historical Park, off W.Va. 3 in Talcott. They placed the original Big Bend Engineering Building on a new, permanent ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Big Bend Tunnel for Power Development ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 87 No. 15 (October 1902), p. 239 doi:10.1038 ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Big Bend Tunnel in Butte County, California ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 54 No. 6 (February 1886), p. 85 doi:10.1038 ...