Over at the always-excellent Remember Jamaica Plain, Mark put up a post last month on the long struggle to tear down the elevated Orange Line and move it to its current location. I hadn’t realized that the efforts to demolish the train had begun in World War II. The rationale was a reuse of the steel for the war effort, but the underlying cause was undoubtedly to rid Washington Street of the noisy, ugly train line.
Click through for the full story including a post from the April 14, 1942 Boston Globe.