Word: railways
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...weather conditions permit, the Boston Elevated Railway Company ex-poets to have the straight rail tracks in position on Massachusetts avenue between Putnam and Harvard squares this morning. The curved rails and switches will be laid tomorrow: and cars will go by this route on Monday morning...
...difference in tide level between the two oceans, and last but not least, the great river which would have to be cared for and which now furnishes water for high levels, water power, and electricity,--the last for towing ships through the canal and for running the broad-gauge railway left by the old De Lesseps Company...
...Boston Elevated Railway is to build a loading and unloading platform at the corner of Boylston street and Charles River road, just north of the Boylston Street Bridge. This is planned to accommodate the crowds on the days of football games in the Stadium. The tracks leading to and from this platform, which will be a covered structure about 300 feet long, will connect with the main line of the subway as it emerges from underground at Brattle square. It is possible that this platform will be ready for use by the time of the Yale game next year...
Coolidge went into British East Africa last April. He traveled on the railroad as far as Nairobi, where he arranged for an escort of natives. He then took the railway to Kizabe, where he struck out into the wilderness. After leaving Kizabe he traveled with an ox-wagon across a waterless plain, where it was impossible to go with native bearers, as far as the Wandorobo River. Coolidge spent a month in the forest country in the vicinity of the river, where he found an abundance of game. He then returned to the railway, where he was joined by Colby...
...society has been obliged to open temporary quarters for its furniture department in the Post Office Building, Harvard square, as the subway construction of the Boston Elevated Railway is underneath the Lyceum Building and has deprived the society of the use of its basement during the fall rush...