to Wickedpissah - Those are great pictures though I can't recall blue tiles. This is around the 1960's right? In the second picture how could one see both sides of Harvard Station? I thought the stations were on top of each other. I guess BSRA can do a special article on this with 3D diagrams unless you have them? As a fun project, I would love to do a HO scale of Harvard station (architecturally speaking- The HO tracks can be added later), but I really could use blueprints of Harvard station and the adjoining TT/busway area.
to The EGE and Adams_umass - I can't believe that there are very few pictures of Harvard underground during the late 50's and early 60's. I can recall vividly getting off any #14000 train at Harvard and then looking to my extreme left we would see a very wide ramp which slopes downward to where the buses and TT berths are. That outbound station was very drab- no ads -no personality. As of the walkway going inbound (from #77 Arlington Heights bus dropoff area)I can't for the life of me, remember what the passageway looked like before getting to the Harvard inbound station. Was it a straightaway ramp? I remember the station itself as I loved to watch the trains come in from (stadium station or yard) with the sparks flying all over. Those were the days.
Since the 100th annniversary of the Harvard station construction will be next month (3/23/1912) I hope someone will come forward with never seen before pics of Harvard st underground. I found this on the cambridge website (
http://www2.cambridgema.gov/historic/library.html) - Does anyone know about this? I would love to look at it, but I live 900 miles south.
• Cambridge Historical Commission photo collections - The Commission collects and copies photographs for its collections. The collection currently includes and estimated 26,000 images, including extant Cambridge buildings. Also collections of street scenes, subway construction, industrial complexes, and right of way valuations. N.B. The majority of photos are arranged by address, not subject.
Collection Hightlight: Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) photo collection. The Commission holds approximately 1,000 glass negatives taken by the Boston Elevated Railway between 1899 and 1912. While these primarily document the construction of the Cambridge Subway in 1909-1912, others depict the residences of the company's president, Gen. William A. Bancroft, on Putnam Avenue and Ware Street (1900); conversion of the New England Glass Company's factory on the Miller's River in East Cambridge into a power station (1902); and construction of the East Cambridge viaduct in 1907-1912. Related holdings include about 200 cyanotypes made from negatives not in the CHC collection and about 3,000 film negatives, some not yet catalogued, depicting subway and surface operations in Cambridge taken by the BERy, the Metropolitan Transit Authority, and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority from 1935-1970.
Thanks for the pics! keep it coming!