When you look on a subway map, the last thing you're probably expecting is to ride 75-year-old streetcars on one of the lines. But that is exactly the case for the Boston Red Line. While most of the line is a traditional heavy rail subway, the southern end of one of the branches is physically disconnected from the rest of the line. Instead, on this short, isolated section, old PCC trolleys run on a service known as the "Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line."
We board the Red Line at Harvard (yes, like the famous university), and along the way to Ashmont, we're getting off at several stations to point out strange features at those stops. Check out the chapters to find out what those strange features are!
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:23 A Tour of Harvard University
1:22 Harvard Square: Bus Tunnel
2:34 Harvard Square: Stacked Platforms
3:52 Boarding a Train
4:34 Kendall/MIT: Musical Artwork (that doesn't work)
6:22 Crossing the Charles River
7:29 Doors Closing Noise
7:42 Park Street: Spanish Solution Platforms
7:59 South Station
8:21 Andrew
8:38 JFK/UMass: the Line Splits
9:17 Savin Hill: Only the Ashmont Branch Stops Here
9:52 Arrival at Ashmont
11:00 Walking to the High Speed Line
12:10 Interior Review of the PCC Streetcars
12:43 Riding the High Speed Line
14:43 History of the High Speed Line
16:20 Arrival at Mattapan