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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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THE BOSTON SUBWAY, The Boskin subwii.v is far-tauiwl tor Ihr boldness of its concep-tion, tlie engineering ditiiculties. and its ultimate success, bothin construction and operation. Tlie subway is a tuuuel or under-ground passageway 9.498 ft. long, under several of the principalstreets, built by the city and leased for a term of 20 years to tlieWest End Street Railway Company. It is by far the largest lui-derground passageway for railways in the world, the foiu-trackportion having a cross-sectional area of 707 sq. ft. After the introduction of electric traction the cars from allparts of Boston and its suburbs centered in one downtown dis-trict, one-quarter mile broad and about one mile long. The twomain thoroughfares between the northern aud southern portionsof the city were Tremont street and Washington street, narrowand tortuous highways. No more serious difficulty ever presenteditself to the street railway aud municipal ofBeials than the enig-ma of relieving the congested traffic i

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