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Rapid Transit Lines in Boston 3 hole punched stapled Short istosry of Subway Pho
Rapid Transit Lines in Boston
Stapled 3 hole punched
Approx 58 pages Boston Street Railway Association
1964?
Short history of the Boston subway system. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos and diagrams. Discuses the construction of the subways along Tremont Street, Boylston Street and Huntington Avenue, the East Cambridge viaduct, the Highland branch, Government Center station, elevating the main line, the tunnels under Washington Street and out to East Boston and Dorchester, the extensions to Forest Hills, Revere and Dorchester, Everett station, the Cambridge subway, and the high speed trolley line. With chronology and several maps.
CONTENTS
History of the Boston Transit Commission
Sketch of Rapid Transit Lines in 1918
The Tremont Street Subway
The East Cambridge Viaduct
The Boylston Street Subway
The Huntington Avenue Subway
Boston Common
The Highland Branch
The Government Center Station
The Main Line Elevated
The Washington Street Tunnel
The Forest Hills Extension
The Everett Station
The East Boston Tunnel
The Revere Extension
The Cambridge Subway
The Dorchester Tunnel
The Dorchester Extension
The High Speed Trolley Line
Operations
Chronology of Service
INTRODUCTION
The construction and operation of rapid transit electric railway routes in the Boston area began in 1895 and continues in 1964. A number of new techniques were developed and a number of inventions commonly used in the industry were developed in Boston, and the study of the history of rapid transit in the city can be both absorbing and instructive.
While both New York and Chicago preceded Boston in the building of elevated roads by a number of years, and the mileage operated in these cities today is greater, the Boston system was highly respected for a number of years, on account of the ingenuity of its management, and the practices which it developed and proved for the use of its bigger brothers.
The local transportation in Boston has been provided by a single company for over eighty years. The West End Street Railway, formed by Henry M. Whitney from a number of horse railroads, was completely electrified in 1888-1893, shortly after Frank Sprague's experiments at Richmond demonstrated the economy and reliability of the electric trolley car.
Boston was the first city in America and the second in the world, to develop a method of reducing the congestion of cars on downtown streets which resulted shortly after electrification, by the construction of a subway. It was the first city in the world to plan and build a high floor rapid transit line using multiple unit electric trains.
The first steps by which the present rapid transit system was executed is outlined in the following history by the Boston Transit Commission, the municipal agency responsible for the subway portions of the system.
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