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The Boston Charlestown Elevated

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The Boston Charlestown Elevated
Posted by daveklepper on Tuesday, May 21, 2024 4:35 AM

Entirely replaced north no underground Haymarket Square Station by the northern portion of the Orange Line.  We will look at the Main-Line Forest Hills -Everett line from North Station north to Everett, with a side view  of the Main Steet Bridge over the Charles, a stop at Tomkins square - side-view from street level,, many Sullivan Square pictures, and a look at Everett.

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, May 23, 2024 3:41 AM

The  Charlestown Elevated actually started south of North Station. at the portal north of Haymaket.  Left-ti-right of the six tracks:

Elevated to Sullixan Squre and Everett

Elevatesubway d to Washing Sreet Tunnel and Forest Hills

Trolley-Subway  to Lechemere Viaduct

Trolley-Subway to North-Station surface loop and surface Bunker Hill Street and Main Street streetcar lines to Sullivan Square

Reverse of above

From Lechemere Viaduct to Subway

   

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, May 30, 2024 3:32 AM

Found I photo I'd taken of the portal with a train headed for Everett and 2 PCCs from Lechmere:

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Posted by daveklepper on Sunday, June 2, 2024 4:56 AM

Here, we are on an Everett-bound train just after leaving Sullican Square Station, and we are seeing the rear of a Forest-Hills-bound train and the ramp to the surface used by the Elm Street Fellsway streetcars and in the past also by the Eastern Mass. cars dfor Stoneham:

 

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