There is a (poor) map provided. There is also a video/photo montage on the front page - although for some reason they failed to link it on the story page. You can see by the graffitti-covered walls that the tunnels are not exactly secret.
The neatest abandoned line is the Boylston extension under the Elliot Norton park. This was (if I'm not mistaken) where they would have sent the Silver Line buses. Nice way to connect the two lines. Unfortunately, not to happen.
I can't see any reason to connect the Green Line there with the Orange Line at NEMC; not enough traffic, probably. Of course, if the feds offered to pay for it ...
FYI, the ArchBoston forum discusses transit news quite nicely, including discussions of old and abandoned lines as well as proposals for new lines and pipe-dreams.
He wrote a science fiction story called A Subway Named Moebius specifically about the T - then known as the MTA - and it prominently featured the Tremont subway, as I recall.
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Woulda been a bettah story
WIth more pictures and a map....
Mo' pix
Thanks to cjmahoney in the web comments to the "Globe" article, here's a treasure trove of b&w photos of abandoned subway tunnels:
http://www.abandonedsubwaytunnels.com/subwaysite/b...
There is a (poor) map
There is a (poor) map provided. There is also a video/photo montage on the front page - although for some reason they failed to link it on the story page. You can see by the graffitti-covered walls that the tunnels are not exactly secret.
Best line
The neatest abandoned line is the Boylston extension under the Elliot Norton park. This was (if I'm not mistaken) where they would have sent the Silver Line buses. Nice way to connect the two lines. Unfortunately, not to happen.
I can't see any reason to connect the Green Line there with the Orange Line at NEMC; not enough traffic, probably. Of course, if the feds offered to pay for it ...
FYI, the ArchBoston forum discusses transit news quite nicely, including discussions of old and abandoned lines as well as proposals for new lines and pipe-dreams.
I love features like this...
...too bad H.P. Lovecraft isn't around to write a short story set in those tunnels.
Try A. J. Deutsch
He wrote a science fiction story called A Subway Named Moebius specifically about the T - then known as the MTA - and it prominently featured the Tremont subway, as I recall.
http://www.iblist.com/book12352.htm
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1919 or 2009
The part abandoned in 1919 looks exactly like the part I ride every day! Thanks for posting.