Word: subway
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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rives on a lower level unloading platform for Boston and passes through the lower story of the two-story passageway which connects the Mt. Auburn street surface line with the subway trains...
...Subway Opens Tomorrow Morning...
...Cambridge subway will open tomorrow morning at 5.24 o'clock, when the first regular passenger train will leave Harvard square. The cost of the completed subway has been estimated...
...subway will be opened on March 23, according to an official announcement made by the Elevated Railway Company yesterday. The first regular passenger train will leave Harvard square at 5.24 that morning, and will run through to Park street. The regular schedule will then go into effect, with two, three and four car trains running at intervals of from two to four minutes as the traffic demands. The running time will be 8 minutes...
...closing, Mr. Rhodes mentioned the merits of installing the Tungsten lamps in all subway trains in New York, instead of increasing the size of the copper feeder which would be a very expensive step. A number of these Tungsten lamps have already been tried out, but until they are used throughout, the present trouble will remain. The carbon filaments of the lamps grow dim and almost go out when the train starts, due to the excessive voltage drop in the third rail. The superiority of the Tungsten lamp lies in the fact that its candlepower varies considerably less in proportion...