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Engineers posing in front of the tunnel entrance in Airolo

Engineers posing in front of the tunnel entrance in Airolo

Engineers posing in front of the tunnel entrance in Airolo

Engineers posing in front of the tunnel entrance in Airolo, around 1882 (Museum of Communication, Bern / photographer: Gabler, Interlaken)

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Through the mountain on their knees
Construction
31. October 2014

Rock meets concrete

The Gotthard Base Tunnel is a high-tech product – and, like every tunnel, the result of much hard graft: by labourers, masons and concrete layers.

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