Huge? I have seen it and it only makes a small loop in downtown Chiraq and from what I have seen it is hardly ridden anymore. Time to tear it out and put in a subway system.
@@johncotter1600 Right, Chicago is the only City that has maintained 90% of its Elevated and Subway Structure and is planning to expand... The L is a Considered a Chicago landmark
It's funny that they have decided to expand considering they tore out 3 entire lines. Look up the Kemwood Line, Stockyards Line, and Logan Square Line.
I remember this well. My first job out of college I had to ride the elevated Orange Line. Whenever it passed by the St. Elsewhere building the theme song went through my head. It went underground a few months later.I was looking forward to the change at the time. On hindsight, I miss it.
For me, born and raised in Roxbury and hearing stories about the train station; and now watching this video makes me wish that they kept it! I was only a year old at this time too lol But the lady was right when she said riding on the train higher up get you a view of Roxbury which is a great neighborhood to look at.
"That woman who just turned 60 is or would be 90 today. So strange how time marches on. This doesn't seem like it was that long ago." I truly hope she is still enjoying her life in Boston.
That's sad I've been riding the Elevated train from Orange Line and Green Line too, but I am glad that New York City subway elevated train system is still have their open 24/7 every day.
DigitalIslandboy trolleybus* turns into an electric trolley car that runs off overhead power lines once it enters the dedicated bus tunnel approaching South Station
When they took down the Orange Line they promised to replace it with a subway. The Orange Line was put into the channel created for what was going to be the Southwest Expressway.
@CrappyDreams No, the Orange Line was put into the cut that was supposed to become the (unbuilt) SouthWest Expressway next to NorthEastern University's campus. Part of the Silver Line (at present) goes down Washington Street towards Dudley where the Orange Line was above ground. They are about a half mile apart. If you look at the south end of Tufts/New England Medical Station you can see the bricked up wall where the OL used to go above ground behind the hospital then go on a former bridge high above the Mass Turnpike down Washington St. to Dudley.
@@ARSZLB The Silver Line to/from Dudley does not now go into the tunnel. It starts/stops opposite side of Atlantic Avenue outside South Station on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Essex Street. It also doesn't use electricity on that route before it snakes around towards Downtown Crossing and Boyston Street. The tunnel was never built for that part of the Silver Line because the Hospital on Washington Street complained the tunnel construction was going to be a safety issue for ambulances.
Elevated lines are still useful and should have a future as well as a past. It's a very foolish decision to want to get rid of them and I hope this trend is soon reversed
eisemanrenyardjake Why? They cause an excessive level of visual and noise pollution and probably more air pollution. The only advantage they have over underground lines is being cheaper and perhaps more accessible.
Modern L's are all electric; electric trains don't pollute the air. Yes, they're cheaper and more accessible than underground commuter lines and offer great views from the trains. As for noise pollution, newer trains are quieter and no noisier than mainline trains, or road traffic, which is noisier still (and definitely pollutes the air!). Regarding visual pollution, people said the Eiffel Tower was a blight on the Parisian skyline when it was new; now it's one of the city's most beloved attractions. Ditto the London Eye; people said it was an eyesore when it first went up; 5 years later, when its lease with the original operator expired and it was due to come down, opposition was so great that the city's mayor stepped in and saved it due to popular demand. L's are like this too, only many times more useful
eisemanrenyardjake Cheaper, more accessible and views from the trains doesn’t seem like sufficient reason for them to be preferred over underground lines given all those disadvantages too.
Well, evidence speaks for itself. I live in an area served by an underground commuter line and I prefer Ls. They're also faster to build than underground lines and with new Ls, such as the Docklands Light Railway (or DLR) in the East End of London, it's going from strength to strength. Sure, underground lines have their uses and for me, they've always been part of life, but they're harder to access (especially if they're old) more expensive and take longer to build, don't offer good views (for the most part, anyway) and many people who are claustrophobic can't use them. They're also much noisier (when you're on board) than Ls. It's unclear what, if any, disadvantages Ls have that mainline trains don't. To not want them, you're behaving like an ignorant little child who doesn't want a vaccination from the doctor because the shot will sting (for a short time) even though it's for their own, long-term benefit
Chicago and NYC are too big to replace all that route. Philly and the others mentioned are small like Boston but they don't invest in their infrastructure because they would have to raise the taxes to do. It even though I miss the old EL, I don't muss the clickity clack, screeching gears, the drunken bums and trash under the EL with the graffiti on Washington street....don't miss it. My grandmother took the orange line from 1950 to 1961 from Dudley to Downtown when she worked at Jirdan Marsh ❤I was 6 when they tore it down in 1990.
In 1940-42 NYC took down the second ave el. We did not get a replacement subway until 2017. and that is an incomplete section from 63st to 96st. Maybe by 2030 it will be a extend to 125 st but not below 63st. at least Boston built a new Orange line to replace that el.
I'd like to find a video that has the Orange line starting from Everett to Forest Hills. That's the Ride I always took for 10 cents and for Saturday entertainment. I loved the Orange Line.
I am surprised that lady mentioned the Third Avenue El in New York. I wonder if she rode that elevated as well. Most of it closed in 1955, though a lot was still running until 1973.
Had the ROW for the cancelled Southwest Expressway not been dug up and repurposed for the Orange Line relocation I feel that the El would've been retained and rehabbed.
Wat was the point of demolishing it if MBTA didn’t even start construction of the underground subway that they promised... should’ve waited till it was completely done to tear it down ...
Those tracks came down thirty years ago, though as a New Yorker I can't really say I like the (7) going over most of Roosevelt Avenue all the time. Still sad that Boston lost theirs though.
the 7 IS Queens, and i hope they keep improving it and never do away with it. sometimes when i couldn’t sleep, i would go ride the 7 train from end to end, Main St in Flushing to Times Square, at 2 AM when i’d be the only person in the whole car that i was sitting in.
Fans of the 1980's tv show St Elsewhere should recognize the building at the 1:10 mark across from the park on the left. It is the facade that was used for the fictional St Eligius Hospital.
@A R So let me get this straight they took down the Orange Line “EL” in Boston. Yet they plan to put up the Green Line “EL” in Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford.
IT,S REALLY SAD TO THINK THAT SYSTEM IS GONE I, WAS BORN AND BREAD IN BOSTON FOR FIFTY FIVE YEARS WHO NOW LIVES IN FLORIDA AND I HAVE BEEN HERE FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS BUT , REMEMBERING MY CHILDHOOD TAKING THOSE TRAINS WITH MY MOTHER BACK IN THE DAY WAS A JOY MAN I MUST GETING OLD.
I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but, Markas' narration mentions how the el passes hospitals just as the train goes by the fictional hospital used in St. Elsewhere.
Not too far off. Not because of the color, though. The Boston Elevated Railway built the El right in front of Holy Cross Cathedral, and I remember some Catholic friends complaining that the Yankees had wrecked the Catholic cathedral with all that El noise. They shut down the El between someplace and someplace else when Pope John Paul came to town once; don't know if for noise or for security. It was the pre Popemobile days, when he rode standing up in an open car, so I kind of doubt it was for security.
I remember my first train. "Red Rattlers" they were called..... Toronto to Fassifern "2 small towns 140km north of Sydney Australia".... If I could turn back time.....
Green And Orange Line Productions I think blight was a major issue, like it was with the Charlestown El in the 1970s. I don't know that I'd say Roxbury is exactly nice now, but it's vastly improved over what it was thirty years ago, and getting rid of the el noise (and shadows) was part of that. The downside is that the Silver Line is a terrible excuse for a replacement and doesn't go south of Dudley.
Nove Andrade Most of the current Dudley bus station is original construction from the el station. They just lowered it to ground level. It's quite beautiful, even if Dudley Square itself is a horrible tangle of random street directions.
Dudley station was saved as is talked about in one of these comment sections. They reused most of the structure for the bus station that became part of the silver line (which is just a bus line)
I love it I live in the sout end in the in the 70 and 80s The best in my life on the subways the orange 🍊 Line .good by to a good one. Always your fan sandra s p.s. miss it.
Take me back.. bring it back.. bring me back.. Boston when we had a elevated orange line train it was a Extoric Landmark.. they ruined Boston by knocking it down. the Southwest corridor Sucks it's a Joke Now.
Even though I live in New York City where we have 40% elevated its still sad to see this happen because it reminds how possible it is to happen here. (Although I think the 1.6 bil a mile price tag protects us)
They were reliable workhorses but the MBTA worked them for too long. They should have been overhauled but the MBTA decided to wait for the CRRC cars hoping the Hawker Siddelys wouldn't wear out. They did ... one spectacularly! 😢
There was nothing with els but is easy sometimes ahead to see trains to operate outside is passengers to see outdoor views and the change on the next page is ridiculous the el was valuable structure and that just bits the dust unique structure, renovation and reconstruction must the page for the century too and it’s a shame that is turning out too differently to make underground line!
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You're kidding me, they ended the elevated train and replaced it with a subway? I never knew that. Why the hell would they do that? The underground subways are ugly and smell like piss. The elevated transit system sounds awesome!
I am so glad Chicago still has a huge Elevated and Subway train system
I get what you mean.. But you do realise he is an entire century behind in time 😂....
But he means well..
Huge? I have seen it and it only makes a small loop in downtown Chiraq and from what I have seen it is hardly ridden anymore. Time to tear it out and put in a subway system.
Wrong Magnus, it goes all throughout the city and services hundreds of thousands of customers a day.
@@johncotter1600 Right, Chicago is the only City that has maintained 90% of its Elevated and Subway Structure and is planning to expand... The L is a Considered a Chicago landmark
It's funny that they have decided to expand considering they tore out 3 entire lines. Look up the Kemwood Line, Stockyards Line, and Logan Square Line.
I remember this well. My first job out of college I had to ride the elevated Orange Line. Whenever it passed by the St. Elsewhere building the theme song went through my head. It went underground a few months later.I was looking forward to the change at the time. On hindsight, I miss it.
And those trains are still in service today!
New ones are coming.
www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2016/11/14/new-mbta-orange-line-trains/
Derwin how about the one that was older the train their on
RixceU i take that to work and school daily
MCPE MBTA stuff & more HERNANDEZ Melted for scrap and shipped to China.
Um, actually the Orange Line trains were scrapped.
For me, born and raised in Roxbury and hearing stories about the train station; and now watching this video makes me wish that they kept it! I was only a year old at this time too lol But the lady was right when she said riding on the train higher up get you a view of Roxbury which is a great neighborhood to look at.
Ikr🥲
That woman who just turned 60 is or would be 90 today. So strange how time marches on. This doesn't seem like it was that long ago.
Time is a weird, weird thing. Quite awful, too.
"That woman who just turned 60 is or would be 90 today. So strange how time marches on. This doesn't seem like it was that long ago." I truly hope she is still enjoying her life in Boston.
Time is weird. I wasn't born at that time...
I miss these days! Wish I could watch more vids like this of my City Boston's former elevated trains. R.I.P.
That's sad I've been riding the Elevated train from Orange Line and Green Line too, but I am glad that New York City subway elevated train system is still have their open 24/7 every day.
My hometown- 90s baby but love this city
Too bad thats gone, a very beatiful trainline in my opinion
It is so sad. A tragic loss. These should be rebuilt and more added everywhere. Brilliant architecture and views.
Sad. I live in Arizona now,but when I was a kid I remember the MTA Rapid Transit. Sad.
Rest in peace to the cars that served this line. I haven’t seen one in revenue service after the shutdown.
They still haven't replaced that subway line yet... As of 2017. It is just a glorified bus on that route still. "Silver Line"
DigitalIslandboy trolleybus* turns into an electric trolley car that runs off overhead power lines once it enters the dedicated bus tunnel approaching South Station
When they took down the Orange Line they promised to replace it with a subway. The Orange Line was put into the channel created for what was going to be the Southwest Expressway.
They aren't going to either, most city planners think that "if they'll ride a train, they'll ride a bus too" and WOW are they wrong!!!
@CrappyDreams No, the Orange Line was put into the cut that was supposed to become the (unbuilt) SouthWest Expressway next to NorthEastern University's campus. Part of the Silver Line (at present) goes down Washington Street towards Dudley where the Orange Line was above ground. They are about a half mile apart. If you look at the south end of Tufts/New England Medical Station you can see the bricked up wall where the OL used to go above ground behind the hospital then go on a former bridge high above the Mass Turnpike down Washington St. to Dudley.
@@ARSZLB The Silver Line to/from Dudley does not now go into the tunnel. It starts/stops opposite side of Atlantic Avenue outside South Station on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Essex Street. It also doesn't use electricity on that route before it snakes around towards Downtown Crossing and Boyston Street. The tunnel was never built for that part of the Silver Line because the Hospital on Washington Street complained the tunnel construction was going to be a safety issue for ambulances.
Living next to the L, you didn't need an alarm clock to wake u up @ 5:00 am.
3:14 this woman speaks so well! She sounds like a seasoned reporter
Think about this: since this video all the adults are retired or dead and the kids are like 40 and has kids of there own
Elevated lines are still useful and should have a future as well as a past. It's a very foolish decision to want to get rid of them and I hope this trend is soon reversed
eisemanrenyardjake Why? They cause an excessive level of visual and noise pollution and probably more air pollution. The only advantage they have over underground lines is being cheaper and perhaps more accessible.
Modern L's are all electric; electric trains don't pollute the air. Yes, they're cheaper and more accessible than underground commuter lines and offer great views from the trains. As for noise pollution, newer trains are quieter and no noisier than mainline trains, or road traffic, which is noisier still (and definitely pollutes the air!). Regarding visual pollution, people said the Eiffel Tower was a blight on the Parisian skyline when it was new; now it's one of the city's most beloved attractions. Ditto the London Eye; people said it was an eyesore when it first went up; 5 years later, when its lease with the original operator expired and it was due to come down, opposition was so great that the city's mayor stepped in and saved it due to popular demand. L's are like this too, only many times more useful
eisemanrenyardjake Cheaper, more accessible and views from the trains doesn’t seem like sufficient reason for them to be preferred over underground lines given all those disadvantages too.
Well, evidence speaks for itself. I live in an area served by an underground commuter line and I prefer Ls. They're also faster to build than underground lines and with new Ls, such as the Docklands Light Railway (or DLR) in the East End of London, it's going from strength to strength. Sure, underground lines have their uses and for me, they've always been part of life, but they're harder to access (especially if they're old) more expensive and take longer to build, don't offer good views (for the most part, anyway) and many people who are claustrophobic can't use them. They're also much noisier (when you're on board) than Ls. It's unclear what, if any, disadvantages Ls have that mainline trains don't. To not want them, you're behaving like an ignorant little child who doesn't want a vaccination from the doctor because the shot will sting (for a short time) even though it's for their own, long-term benefit
eisemanrenyardjake Hmmmm you’re starting to convince me actually.
Glad Chicago still has their’s
So does New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami, Detroit, Denver, Atlanta, and Philadelphia. They still have theirs
Chicago and NYC are too big to replace all that route. Philly and the others mentioned are small like Boston but they don't invest in their infrastructure because they would have to raise the taxes to do. It even though I miss the old EL, I don't muss the clickity clack, screeching gears, the drunken bums and trash under the EL with the graffiti on Washington street....don't miss it. My grandmother took the orange line from 1950 to 1961 from Dudley to Downtown when she worked at Jirdan Marsh ❤I was 6 when they tore it down in 1990.
In 1940-42 NYC took down the second ave el. We did not get a replacement subway until 2017. and that is an incomplete section from 63st to 96st. Maybe by 2030 it will be a extend to 125 st but not below 63st. at least Boston built a new Orange line to replace that el.
I miss the tin car trains, the do-do sound everytime the door closes, and just the clickety clackety of the tracks.
I'd like to find a video that has the Orange line starting from Everett to Forest Hills. That's the Ride I always took for 10 cents and for Saturday entertainment. I loved the Orange Line.
Makes me homesick for Boston find memories of riding the subways..live in Texas. we have trains but miss riding the T
It’s still just the same my man. Come back sometime!
2:30 is why I love people
I am surprised that lady mentioned the Third Avenue El in New York. I wonder if she rode that elevated as well. Most of it closed in 1955, though a lot was still running until 1973.
"20th century is coming in, and the 19th century is leaving us"
It's surreal to think he said that 34 years ago
Chicago still has elevated..and I agree that when on it..you see parts of the city you wouldn't otherwise
Boston should have gone the route that Philly took, and reconstruct the El.
Concrete construction made it quiet and reinforced.
Had the ROW for the cancelled Southwest Expressway not been dug up and repurposed for the Orange Line relocation I feel that the El would've been retained and rehabbed.
Wat was the point of demolishing it if MBTA didn’t even start construction of the underground subway that they promised... should’ve waited till it was completely done to tear it down ...
Those tracks came down thirty years ago, though as a New Yorker I can't really say I like the (7) going over most of Roosevelt Avenue all the time. Still sad that Boston lost theirs though.
I hope the 7 line never gets demolished. It's an icon
the 7 IS Queens, and i hope they keep improving it and never do away with it. sometimes when i couldn’t sleep, i would go ride the 7 train from end to end, Main St in Flushing to Times Square, at 2 AM when i’d be the only person in the whole car that i was sitting in.
We'd go to my aunts house in Sunnyside, walk to White Castle then eat burgers under the trains.
It would be rather difficult to do away with it at this point thanks to the IND.
That's my train line.
My mother use to take my brother and I downtown on the orange line almost every Saturday when I was a kid in Boston.
This was featured in the opening credits of every episode of St. Elsewhere.
I've never seen that show. I just checked that out. I didn't know they are Divine featured in the opening credits of a TV show.
@@robertknight4672 At the 1:10 mark, you can actually see the building our the window!
And after the Orange Line was taken out, that Xmas the commuters sang "No-el" :D
I thought this was in the 90s for a sec, until I looked at the description and found out this was the spring of 1987!
Funny how they JUST replaced the train cars😂
Fans of the 1980's tv show St Elsewhere should recognize the building at the 1:10 mark across from the park on the left. It is the facade that was used for the fictional St Eligius Hospital.
Back when the T was great...
Haha the t was never great
Hugo Harington you were never great
Try no taking the T at all even when your car breaks
@A R So let me get this straight they took down the Orange Line “EL” in Boston. Yet they plan to put up the Green Line “EL” in Cambridge, Somerville, and Medford.
It's so weird watching old footage like this. That lady who said she turned 60 is probably dead now, if she's still alive she's 90 years old.
and that boy with his dad is probably about 40
Did not know Boston had an elevated track
At 1:10 you can see the fictional St. Eligius Hospital (Franklin Square House) from the TV hospital Drama "St. Elsewhere!"
IT,S REALLY SAD TO THINK THAT SYSTEM IS GONE I, WAS BORN AND BREAD IN BOSTON FOR FIFTY FIVE YEARS WHO NOW LIVES IN FLORIDA AND I HAVE BEEN HERE FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS BUT , REMEMBERING MY CHILDHOOD TAKING THOSE TRAINS WITH MY MOTHER BACK IN THE DAY WAS A JOY MAN I MUST GETING OLD.
John Doe *BRED NOT A LOAF OF BREAD!
Its still there in 2020
Kinda wish we knew what happened to those people and where are they now...
dead mostly.
I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but, Markas' narration mentions how the el passes hospitals just as the train goes by the fictional hospital used in St. Elsewhere.
Being Orange, I bet the Irish Catholics in Boston didn't like it.
🤣
Not too far off. Not because of the color, though. The Boston Elevated Railway built the El right in front of Holy Cross Cathedral, and I remember some Catholic friends complaining that the Yankees had wrecked the Catholic cathedral with all that El noise. They shut down the El between someplace and someplace else when Pope John Paul came to town once; don't know if for noise or for security. It was the pre Popemobile days, when he rode standing up in an open car, so I kind of doubt it was for security.
Wasn’t this used in the opening credits to ST elsewhere
It's strange to see those things new and not covered in rust. Can't wait for the new rollingstock in 2018-19
The Moose yeah but they are china trains..
built in Springfield though, but yeah still China trains.
this is basically the prologue to the Big Dig.
I remember my first train. "Red Rattlers" they were called..... Toronto to Fassifern "2 small towns 140km north of Sydney Australia"....
If I could turn back time.....
Why did they tear this down? I would have loved to ride on this!
Green And Orange Line Productions I think blight was a major issue, like it was with the Charlestown El in the 1970s. I don't know that I'd say Roxbury is exactly nice now, but it's vastly improved over what it was thirty years ago, and getting rid of the el noise (and shadows) was part of that. The downside is that the Silver Line is a terrible excuse for a replacement and doesn't go south of Dudley.
Nove Andrade Most of the current Dudley bus station is original construction from the el station. They just lowered it to ground level. It's quite beautiful, even if Dudley Square itself is a horrible tangle of random street directions.
When the Silver Line was implemented, it was a joke. To this day, its STILL a joke.
I am so glad Chicago still has a huge Elevated and Subway train system
Well it was the same year the Big Dig was approved so maybe they thought they should get rid of this too 😢
Imagine if they saved every project they did lol the system would've been bigger
Yup, the subway lines might have made it out to Route 128 as envisioned.
DigitalIslandboy bruh this was two years ago lol
DigitalIslandboy good to know someone replied in 2020
@@DigitalIslandboy Hi, one year later
Hello myself
wow and now we wish it was still there.
I live in the south end . Sandra miss dove st stop!
I well always be a fan of the 🍊line!🤗
I have had grown up on Dover Station and Checker Smoker. PREMIER restaurant. Paul Export.
Makes me wonder if the Vancouver Skytrain will be scrapped when I turn 80…
Were any of the station saved or were they all torn down along with the elevated system
Dudley station was saved as is talked about in one of these comment sections. They reused most of the structure for the bus station that became part of the silver line (which is just a bus line)
Also part of one station is up at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Maine.
It is like the Broad St Line combined with the Market Frankford Line.
Philly way better than Boston.
Broad St line J/Z?
I kinda see it
@@dragonknightofamiraka3636 Lies
I love it
I live in the sout end in the in the 70 and 80s
The best in my life on the subways the orange 🍊
Line .good by to a good one.
Always your fan sandra s p.s. miss it.
2019, the Orange line still uses the same trains....
chi zhang I go back to Boston in May. I hope I get lucky enough to see and ride on the 12 new Orange Line cars...
I wonder how the area look now, that the train is gone?
Here's the follow-up and answer to your question: th-cam.com/video/PN9aPW54jNY/w-d-xo.html
I like how no one in the comments has mentioned the fact that there was snow on the ground and it was the end of April. Is that normal for Boston?
It used to happen from time to time.
Go check out the Denver area....snow in late June.
Bro we had snow in may
Called the L , because elevated . Ours in Chicago still runs .for the last 120 years .
Yep. Chicago never really adopted the subway.
But in Boston we spelled it with an e: the El.
Wow, very nice
Take me back.. bring it back.. bring me back.. Boston when we had a elevated orange line train it was a Extoric Landmark.. they ruined Boston by knocking it down. the Southwest corridor Sucks it's a Joke Now.
They should have left it alone. It looks like the 1 train in The Bronx.
Even though I live in New York City where we have 40% elevated its still sad to see this happen because it reminds how possible it is to happen here. (Although I think the 1.6 bil a mile price tag protects us)
It has happened here. All of the original els in Manhattan and Brooklyn were demolished decades ago.
The L is still in Chicago 2020
@@blakemcnamara9105 but sadly the last one in Manhattan is the 1 line.
Looks like boarded up windows in the south end. My have times changed.
Tyler Smith *BOARDED
Damn near everywhere was back then
Those trains are still in service in 2020.
You didn't need an alarm clock if u lived next to the el.
At least you'll still see the El in the opening credits of _St. Eleswhere_.
Is it just me or the the old orange line elevated Train looks like the old Path Train on the inside
They are based on the PATH PA3.
Kevin Wong I knew it, thank you😌
Except the Orange 🍊 Line cars were nicer. 😊
to think those Hawker Siddley trainsets are still in service somehow
They were reliable workhorses but the MBTA worked them for too long. They should have been overhauled but the MBTA decided to wait for the CRRC cars hoping the Hawker Siddelys wouldn't wear out. They did ... one spectacularly! 😢
2:45 Ferris Bueller's sister!
Ohhhhh!! This is so sad I wanna cry!
Ikr
+JoeyLovesTrains Don't be sad just go to New York. They did things the right way there.
WOW SAD I LIKED THE T ORANGE LINE BUT THERE IS A NEW ORANGE LINE COMING
George Figueroa chill with the caps lock. and when? the Silver Line trolleybuses aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
They should have petitioned to save these els.
The MBTA still has elevated portions
Yes, the one over Charles Circle and Longfellow Bridge, and the one over Leverett Circle and next to the Charles River Dan/McGrath Highway.
Commuters ride these trains, but they are not "commuter" trains.
The last elevated train ride in Boston was in 2004
Boston accent
I loved the El
2:00 Boy just screwed himself
wow I've heard about this. looks like they were using the same type of train though. No wonder they are so crappy.
KENMORE
HYNES COVERSHEN CNTR
There was nothing with els but is easy sometimes ahead to see trains to operate outside is passengers to see outdoor views and the change on the next page is ridiculous the el was valuable structure and that just bits the dust unique structure, renovation and reconstruction must the page for the century too and it’s a shame that is turning out too differently to make underground line!
At least the locos are still used underground
2:10 Damn that dude looks awfully a lot like Tyler the Creator
Those trains are still working in January of 2021😂
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I miss Boston's elevated train lines.
Haha we still have those same cars today in December 2019 😹😹😹
And they still use those trains in 2018.
HAYMARKET
How much at 80s 2022 2.75
Boston will be look like New York with this! I wanna the trains on the tip not on the ground
LECHMERE
NORTH STATION
Lol, Jay Z need to pay his fare
they need to keep it like that.
Hi I sub to you
You're kidding me, they ended the elevated train and replaced it with a subway? I never knew that. Why the hell would they do that? The underground subways are ugly and smell like piss. The elevated transit system sounds awesome!
No subway but the T did build a below grade surface line with open air platforms that are open to the elements.
🍀☘️
The T is an L
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