Beneath the Streets of Boston: Building America's First Subway

by Joe McKendry

Book Overview

Beckoning readers to explore the territory beneath Boston's streets, Joe McKendry explores a century-old world when Beantown designed and created the country's first subway. In stunning artwork and through a fascinating narrative, you will enter the subterranean realm of workers who dug miles of tunnels by hand. Using pick and shovels to create new routes, you'll discover how these workers burrowed deep below Boston Harbor, under Beacon Hill and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567922848
• ISBN13: 9781567922844
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.2" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

A fascinating, informative, and superbly illustrated history

In "Beneath The Streets Of Boston: Building America's First Subway", Joe McKendry presents a fascinating, informative, and superbly illustrated history of how the first city subway in America came to be built under the streets of Boston, Massachusetts in 1895. It was a massive construction project that was finally completed and open to the public on July 1, 1918. Subway systems had been built in England and Scotland, but this was the first time in an American metropolis that underground railroads were implemented to ease the transportation gridlocks and traffic jams of ground level transports. Historic photos are combined with drawings to illustrate the tasks and constructions problems that had to be solved and the men who worked to build and then operate this revolutionary system. "Beneath The Streets Of Boston" is unique and very highly recommended for school and community American Transportation History collections, and especially commended to the attention of railroading enthusiasts as well!

I never knew so much

I lived in Boston my whole life. McKendry's book is full of information I never knew about our first subway system. The drawings are awesome. My 8 year old son who loves trains is fascinated with the book. He wants me to read it to him every night. Sometimes he just sits by himself and looks at the pictures. I highly recommend this book both for it's information and the wonderful drawings