by crash575
Does anyone know how the elevator project is impacting the yard leads? I would assume the elevator will be taking up some space in this area.
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crash575 wrote:Does anyone know how the elevator project is impacting the yard leads? I would assume the elevator will be taking up some space in this area.Extremely doubtful. The tunnel glances the station on a tangent with the thinnest point of separation being at a single point somewhere in the concourse (wall at the bottom of the main stairs?). Station's whole design had to swerve around it because the leads were active for full revenue service to Harvard-Brattle for all 4 years of construction right till start of service at the new station on 9/6/83. Anywhere they plop an elevator has to be somewhere the tunnel isn't for it to vertically reach the station at all.
WickedPissah wrote:And here is a video of a train going through the abandoned station.Many thanks, WP! Most interesting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCYBrZiqyE
diburning wrote:I'd be terrified standing so close to the third rail.He isn't really... Try walking down the ROW with the power on.
DavidBOC wrote:An interesting thread for someone like me who is a Cambridge native and took the MTA to school at Harvard Square when i was a kid. A couple of points:There's still a BERy manhole cover or two around there, as well as a retaining wall of vintage construction next to the pathway splitting between buildings at the JFK school. Can't figure out what the wall was for since I don't know relative position of the edge of the old yard and shop buildings vs. today's layout.
One station on the line that has not been mentioned is Stadium Station. This station was the two easternmost tracks in the Elliot Yards. It only opened when there was either a Harvard home game at Harvard Stadium and on Thanksgiving Day when the stadium hosted the annual Boston Latin - Boston English game. Parts of the apparently solid concrete wall along Boylston Street (Now JFK St) would swing open. The Stadium Station had a token booth and fare collection boxes. My dad would take me to a lot of Harvard games and always to the Latin-English game (dad was Boston Latin '19)
When I was in grad school at Kennedy School ('84-'86) the old portal for the trains was still visible and if I recall correctly has a stone above the top reading "Boston Elevated R'y". That stone is, I believe, still in the courtyard behind the Taubman building at K School, which stands on the portal location.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:I cannot say with a surveyors certainty but based on my recollections from when I was a kid and also from when the construction was going on that that wall you refer to is probably the boundary between the subway yards, Elliot Yards and the trolley yard/barn, Bennett St Car Barns. Back when Stadium Station was operating i recall that the trains coming out or the portal made a fairly sharp turn to get to the tracks used for Stadium Station, i.e. the easternmost two tracks at Eliot Street. those tracks were parallel. to Boylston St (now JFK St).DavidBOC wrote:An interesting thread for someone like me who is a Cambridge native and took the MTA to school at Harvard Square when i was a kid. A couple of points:There's still a BERy manhole cover or two around there, as well as a retaining wall of vintage construction next to the pathway splitting between buildings at the JFK school. Can't figure out what the wall was for since I don't know relative position of the edge of the old yard and shop buildings vs. today's layout.
One station on the line that has not been mentioned is Stadium Station. This station was the two easternmost tracks in the Elliot Yards. It only opened when there was either a Harvard home game at Harvard Stadium and on Thanksgiving Day when the stadium hosted the annual Boston Latin - Boston English game. Parts of the apparently solid concrete wall along Boylston Street (Now JFK St) would swing open. The Stadium Station had a token booth and fare collection boxes. My dad would take me to a lot of Harvard games and always to the Latin-English game (dad was Boston Latin '19)
When I was in grad school at Kennedy School ('84-'86) the old portal for the trains was still visible and if I recall correctly has a stone above the top reading "Boston Elevated R'y". That stone is, I believe, still in the courtyard behind the Taubman building at K School, which stands on the portal location.