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Amtrak and Orange Line

Description: Back Bay Amtrak station entrance. Train, viewed from above, starts up and moves slowly along tracks. Train histle and bells. Railroad bed. Commuter train pulls up, passengers board. Two trains pass in opposite directions. Looking down tracks to old and new Hancock buildings. Orange line elevated structure along Washington Street. T train passes overhead with typical clunking sound; congested vehicular traffic below. Camera moves on complex steel skeleton of tracks above.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977

BostonGas

Description: BostonGas complex in Dorchester. Control room filled with wall mounted dials, gauges, diagrams of flow and pressure. Outside are two main storage tanks and network of above ground pipes. Corita Kent rainbow painting with profile likened to Ho Chi Minh.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977

Orange line in southwest corridor

Description: Orange line Egleston station. POV riding up escalator to outdoor platform with few passengers waiting. Empty train pulls up, people board. POV riding along track, looking inbound to Boston and down onto track bed. Train interior. Characteristic screeching and locomotion clunking sounds. Train passes through Dudley station. Map sign of MBTA subway system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977

State laboratory

Description: State public health laboratory. Technician works with sera in vials under protective glass hood with gloved hands. Draws specimens with pipette, deposits in test tubes. Interview with Dr. George Grady on Legionnaire's disease; says it is definitely not an epidemic despite outbreak in Vermont among immune suppressed people.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977