Word: transitional
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...following graduates are on the list of speakers: G. S. Rice '70, chief engineer Rapid Transit R. R. Commission, New York; F. W. Dean '75, mill engineer and architect, Boston; G. R. Worcester '82, consulting engineer, Boston; F. L. Gilman '95, Western Electric Co., New York; G. A. Moyer '99, General Electric Co., Lynn; H. M. Hale '04, Rapid Transit R. R. Commission, New York
...subsequent act of the Massachusetts Legislature. Superficial plans for a two track subway, the rails of which will be approximately 30 feet below the street level, have been drawn by the Boston Elevated Railroad Company and have been accepted by the City of Cambridge and by the Boston Transit Commission. Along the route, borings have been made to ascertain the nature of the ground and the strength of the building foundations. As much of the preliminary work as remains to be done can be finished before spring, when the actual construction will probably begin. By the provisions...
...tracks will come out of the tunnel and proceed on an elevated structure to the new Cambridge bridge. Over the bridge, surface tracks will be used, rising to an elevated on the Boston side, for a short distance, and then going into a tunnel. It remains for the Boston Transit Commission to determine whether the Boston Terminal will be at Scollay square or at Park street...
...tracks will be laid, making it impossible to run both local and express trains as is done in the New York subway. No definite conclusion has been reached as to the location of intermediate stations, but there will be as few as possible in order to insure rapid transit...
Howard Adams Carson, "Engineer of the metropolitan sewerage system and of the Boston rapid transit tunnels, successful pioneering works of high local value and wide influence in other communities...