Newsgroups: alt.college.tunnels
Path: news.cs.indiana.edu!umn.edu!sctc.com!smith
From: smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith)
Subject: Re: BU tunnels
Message-ID: <1994Feb23.171411.11981@sctc.com>
Organization: SCTC
References: <2ke5jh$ig0@news.bu.edu> <2kf0at$sb5@news.bu.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 1994 17:14:11 GMT

biddle@cs.bu.edu (Jeremy Biddle) writes:

>.... If anyone knows of any BU tunnels
>(really knows, not just rumors), I'd love to check 'em out.

Who needs steenking steam tunnels when you have the "T" ??? When I was
at BU we explored abandoned subway tunnels and not-so-abandoned access
ways. There's the old tunnels for the abandoned Broadway line, that
twenty years ago still had drums of civil defense supplies for fallout
shelter usage.

There's a large stairwell (at the end of Charlesgate East, maybe West,
the road, if I remember right) that leads down to the underground
Green Line tracks between Auditorium and Kenmore Square.  You can see
the doorway as your trolley speeds by. Upstairs from the tracks is a
small room with a view of the live trolley wire and a BIG knife switch
that leads you-guess-where.

On a different trip, a friend visited the loop of track that goes
above the downtown end of the Kenmore track. He reported some annoying
graffiti, though: "Ha, ha BU engineers, NU got here first!"

Rick.
smith@sctc.com      roseville, minnesota