Commuter patterns set long ago

By adamg - 5/6/06 - 4:06 pm

Charles Swift posts an 1846 Boston-area railroad map that will look very familiar to anybody who's looked at a modern-day commuter-rail map:

...What is hard to imagine is that all of this railroad building was accomplished in twenty years. The Granite Railroad was constructed in 1826 to haul granite for the Bunker Hill Monument to the Neponset River for transport on to Charlestown and was one of the first railroads in the country. Twenty years later a Bostonian could travel by train all over New England. ...