Beneath the Streets of Boston: Building America's First Subway

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, show more engineering drawings, and maps to make this an attractive book. show less