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Laying tracks
By adamg on Mon, 05/19/2014 - 11:34am
The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out when and where this photo was taken. See it larger.
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The folks at the Boston City Archives wonder if you can figure out when and where this photo was taken. See it larger.
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I have no idea...
...where this is, but I am struck by the fact that it seems no one gave a damn about people using their front doors along the right-hand side of the street risking a broken ankle or worse navigating that berm of rubble to get in & out. Now if Sokolove & Sokolove had existed then.... ;-)
Narrow Gauge
Is that me is the gauge on that track too small to be normal rail road or street car.
Maybe eastie before the BL was converted?
okay I'm wrong
Looks like they are installing street car tracks... (I didn't know wooden ties were placed BELOW the bricks ere re-assembled around the tracks)
It's a tricky one
but given that it's a single-track on a narrow street, I'm going to guess the A-line or the part of the E-line that no longer exists. It looks like it could be Allston-Brighton or Mission Hill/JP.
Not the A Line
No part of the A Line (today's 57 bus route) is this narrow, or carried only one-way traffic.
Meridian Street, East Boston
Looking towards Central Square, from Eagle Hill. Looks 1890's based upon the lack of wires.
There are overhead wires that
There are overhead wires that are just barely visible in the blowup - they look exactly like the ones for the 71/73. I don't think I quite appreciated how old that technology is. I never know where the places in these photos are, but I love looking at them.
I'm with you
I cannot think of a narrow enough street with trolley tracks, so my gut in that situation is to guess East Boston.
Or Tremont Street north of the railroad tracks.
That's my guess also. I'm
That's my guess also. I'm pretty sure I've seen those buildings on the right side of the image on Meridian Street.
I'm thinking maybe Main
I'm thinking maybe Main Street or Warren Street in Charlestown? As to when, no clue.
East Fourth Street, South Boston?
This is a wild guess, but it's based on the fact that the photo shows a narrow one-way street in a flat place where the streets are laid out in a grid. The #9 bus in South Boston runs westbound for several blocks on East Fourth Street.
The Answer!
Thanks for playing folks! This photo was taken on B Street in South Boston on December 11, 1915
Somerville
For the Green Line extension, 2018.
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High-yo!
High-yo!
Ha ha.
Ha ha.
If trolley construction was as slow and expensive back then as it is today, the western end of the Green Line would be somewhere around Copley.
I don't think so
I don't see any condos.