Swiss Celebrate Completion of World's Longest Railway Tunnel

Meera Dolasia
Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:17:51 -0700

On October 15th, the people of Switzerland celebrated with abandon, as the drill broke through the last piece of rock, finally connecting the two ends of the Gotthard Base Tunnel - The world's longest railway tunnel. The mammoth undertaking that cost about 10 billion USD took 2,600 workers, 12 years to accomplish - And, it's not done yet.