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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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in being able to purchase the old Bos-ton & Maine Railroad station property extending fromHaymarket Square to Union Station, by means of whichan excellent exit for the subway is provided at the station,and thz streets on the surface are also greatly widened for 499 wagon traffic. The cost of this property was but $750,000,and the amount taken was 124,214 sq. ft. A building willbe put up over the incline from which a good rental is ex-pected. In order to get an exit at the southern end of thesubway the commission condemned a block of land at thejunction of Shawmut Avenue and Tremont Street con-taining 18,831 sq. ft. The incline to the Boylston Streetterminus was made in the Public Gardens, which is cityproperty, and although, owing to the opposition of certainBoston citizens who desired to preserve the Public Gardensintact, some litigation was encountered, the final outcomewas favorable to the commissions plan, and no land dam-ages were necessary for this exit. Instead of spending
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FOUR-TRACK SUBWAY STEEL WALL CONSTRUCTION

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