My Christmas Present for Ben

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1. I definitely live a block away from Pine St right now. I have to wonder how Capitol Hill would look if we had that subway.

2. Why is that ben’s christmas present?

   1. Ben loves the old streetcars.

3. Those are some terrific pics; I’m surprised that I’ve never seen these before. The one with the motorcyclists is probably my favorite…

4. How can we get this subway built?

   1. U-Link includes a subway up pine from westlake until belmont or so.

      1. Not quite, actually. Check out the alignment map: http://www.soundtransit.org/x7757.xml

         Pine on the hill will never get the love that history wanted it to have :(

      2. I guess I should say a “pine and pike street subway” ;)

5. I’m amazed at how tight the clearances are in that subway drawing, especially from the roof of the car to the top of the tunnel. I guess that’s what a third rail gets you: no OCS. And again, only 3 feet from the top of the tunnel box to the road surface. New York subway is deeper than that isn’t it?

   1. The box is strong enough to drive on top. The 3 feet of earth is just the buffer it from freeze/thaw cycles, and allow some utility lines to cross back and forth.

   2. New York’s subway is deeper in parts, but for a great portion of the system, it is only this deep. Of course it is deeper when going under the river or other subway lines. Also, when stations have mezzanines the right of way is deeper as the tracks are two stories below street level. (Also, don’t forget all of the subway lines that are elevated in NYC!)

   3. Love the brick pavement. If they built that it would’ve gotten in the way of I-5 construction later on.

6. thats a real subway too, with third rail, heavy rail cars and high platforms.

   anyone have a map of this proposed route or info on station locations?

   1. Right here from the Seattle Municipal Archives

      1. thanks

7. That is one cool Christmas present!!!

   I love the muni photo archives. I just wish they also kept a searchable database of historic homes. I would pay good money for a print of my house.

   1. Call up King County. They don’t have much online, but they’re the entity to call about house photos. The records of my house had three photos from different years – I have one from around the 40’s (just a guess) hanging on my wall.

8. Oh my god! I just saw this.

   Thank you, Andrew! And Merry Christmas.

   I’m currently reading the book “Twin Cities by Trolley”, I think it’s the format we want to use. Lots of photos just like those…
   http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/diers_twin.html

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