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Loading... Beneath The Streets Of Boston: Building America's First Subway (2004)by Joe McKendry
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This work, written for perhaps young adults, is a nice exploration of the building of the early rapid transit lines in Boston. It well illustrated. Strating with the first subway under Tremont St. in the center of Boston, to alleviate enormous overcrwding by trolleys on the surface, it goes through the elevated railway (connecting Dudley Square and Sullivan Squarre) that for a while was connected into the subway, and the East Boston Tunnel, it finishes with the Harvard Square- Dorchester rapid transit line, which used deep-boring techniques in many sections. In current color designation of the MBTA, these are respectively the Green, Orange, Blue, and Red Lines. The author used hand-drawn illustrations, as well as photographs, engineering drawings, and maps to make this an attractive book. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Beckoning readers to explore the territory beneath Boston's streets, Joe McKendry explores a century-old world when Beantown designed and created the country's first subway. In stunning artwork and through a fascinating narrative, you will enter the subterranean realm of workers who dug miles of tunnels by hand. Using pick and shovels to create new routes, you'll discover how these workers burrowed deep below Boston Harbor, under Beacon Hill and the Old State House, and built the Longfellow Bridge to carry the trains over the Charles River to the center of Cambridge. You'll read lively first-hand accounts of the turn-of-the-century public's perception of the underground public transportation, including their fears (expressed fantastically through the gruesome image of a fanged and tentacled "subway microbe"), and learn how the system served as a model for the rest of the country in its ability to relieve traffic, mitigate congestion (which was even more severe a hundred years ago than today) and get people anywhere they wanted to go for only a nickel. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)625.4Technology Engineering and allied operations Road and Railroad Elevated and underground roads, subwaysLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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