MBTA Commuter Rail Haverhill Line Poster

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  MBTA Commuter Rail Needham Line Poster

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  The Needham Line is the second shortest MBTA commuter rail branch and the only one which was never part of a larger intercity line. First opened as a branch of the Boston & Providence Railroad in 1834, the line ran through West Roxbury to Dedham where it connected back to the Main Line in Hyde Park. A second railroad, the Charles River Branch, was built through Newton and Needham in 1853 and was used to haul gravel from Needham quarries to fill in the Back Bay. The Needham Cutoff, connecting the two railroads, was opened in 1906 and was run as a loop between Boston and it’s growing western suburbs. When the MTA, the predecessor of the MBTA, opened the Riverside “D train” Green Line branch in 1959 the loop service was ended. When the MBTA drew up plans to relocate its Orange Line elevated train to a new subway along the proposed Southwest Expressway (which was canceled in 1971) it planned to convert the Needham Line into a branch of the new Orange Line. Community opposition and a lack of funds stopped such an extension but the Orange Line tracks extend along the Needham Line past Forest Hills as provisions for a future conversion.

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  Boston Historic “T” Expansion Track Map

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  Boston opened the first subway in the US in 1897 and immediately began expanding it. Since then numerous plans have been drawn up, some are simple extensions while others are whole sale reimaginations of the subway. This map shows in detail each official proposal with the history of each idea.

  The map acts as a “choose your own adventure” where by each variant of every plan is drawn. The reader can pick and choose which lines they think could have been built and what the system might have looked like today if they had.

  Fine art prints are made in Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY on Semi-Gloss, 10mil Premium Luster Paper.

  For more information about the map see the original blog post here.

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  MBTA Commuter Rail Fitchburg Line Poster

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  The Fitchburg Line opened between 1840 and 1845 connecting Boston and Fitchburg. The line was extended along the northern frontier of the state before briefly running through southern Vermont on its way to Troy, NY. Traffic on the line slowed after World War 2 and by the 1960s service had been cut back as far as West Concord. After substantial investment by the state, service to Gardner was opening in 1980 but cut back again, this time to Fitchburg in 1987. In 2016 service was extended to Wachusett. The Fitchburg is the second longest line in the commuter rail system but due to decades of deferred maintenance the line suffers from the worst on time performance. Many stations are not ADA compliant and the line features many tight curves through the mountains. Until 2017 the line also had about 9 miles of single track segments which limited capacity, although today only a short section through Waltham remains single tracked.

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  CTA Pink Line El Poster

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  The Pink Line is the most recent addition to the CTA but uses some of the original tracks of the old Metropolitan West Side elevated. The Douglas Park branch opened in 1896 and ran as far west as Oak Park Ave until it was cut back to 54th Ave in Cicero. When the Garfield Park branch of the Met was removed and replaced by the Congress Line (running in the median of Interstate 290) the Douglas Park branch was connected to it and routed through the Milwaukee-Dearborn Subway.

  The Congress-Douglas Lines operated a skip-stop service with stations being designated as A, B, or A/B. The Douglas branch ran B trains exclusively until this service was discontinued. In 2005 the CTA began studies looking at making the Douglas branch a separate line, originally known as the Silver Line. In 2006 a contest found that pink was the preferred choice. The CTA rehabilitated a section of track known as the Paulina Connector which was part of the original Metropolitan elevated but was connected to the Lake St Line. This allows Douglas branch trains to run over the Loop for the first time in half a century.

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  Printed on Satin finish 80# cover stock – 220 GSM. Made in the USA! Standard production time is 5 Days. Please add more time for shipping.

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