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
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
Description: Subway maps from Boston Transit Commission. Archival photos of downtown Boston and environs 1850-1920. Park Street, Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall, Copley Square, Bowdoin Square, Tremont, School, Arlington, and Newbury Streets, Commonwealth Avenue, Washington Street, Scollay Square, India Wharf, State House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1977