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American Experience: The Race Underground

Learn how engineers overcame seemingly impossible challenges to construct America’s first subway.

amexp_race_underground_park_st_hero Park Street Station, underground (1897)
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Learn how America’s first subway, in Boston, overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen and the great fears of its citizenry to create a rapid transit system soon replicated throughout the country.

American Experience: The Race Underground, Tuesday at 9 p.m. on PBS 6.

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