There’s a neat story in the Boston Globe about the first tunnels built for the T, Boston’s subway system. Some of the tunnels built in the late 19th and early 20th century but long since abandoned are like little ghost towns. Subterranean Pompeiis, if you will.
Others have been refurbished for use as a power station, testing facility for new subway features, or for emergency drills.
Over the years, crews have come through the old Tremont Street tunnel to run utility lines or, in recent years, to consider and then reject the possibility of fitting high-speed Silver Line buses in the narrow tunnels. There is also a large mound, probably 15 feet high, of rusted-out 10-gallon water and biscuit containers that date to the 1960s, the height of the Cold War, when the tunnel was considered a nuclear fallout shelter.
Check out the tunnels in this video:
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I am interested in subterranean estabilishments. So I like the article.
They can grow there mushrooms in huge quantities.
The articles mention an attempt to farm some mushrooms in one of the tunnels. Sounds delicious to me. 🙂
Cool. Someday they’ll film one of those post-apocalyptic movies down there. I can see it now–the entire world destroyed except for a ragtag band of scrappy Bostonians sporting Red Sox caps. Woe to the lone Yankees fan who happened to be in town on business on the fateful day…
😆 The Curse of the Bambino WILL EAT YOUR BRAAAAAINS.
I think it is a good idea to put high speed silver lines down there.