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The first subway system in the Western Hemisphere was in Boston. Thomas Williams started a ferry service between the North End and Charlestown. In the late 1700s the stagecoaches connected Boston and Cambridge.

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The change from gas to electric trains was the biggest railway construction of its time. There were over eight thousand horses used for transportation while the train’s were being updated. The good thing about electric trains were they were faster than gas powered trains and did not cause pollution.

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1897: The Hemisphere’s First Subway Emerges

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1897: The Hemisphere’s First Subway Emerges

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The trains that were being built were slow and congested. They took up a lot of room in the city and people were not pleased with the trains and the progress being made to them.

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For the first time ever Boston added a railway that was not underground, or on the ground at all. They put the train tracks on support beams and had them run above all the cars over the city.

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There is now a new owner of El (Electric Locomotives) that is a part of the government. People are starting to dislike the elevated railways because they are an eyesore and they much rather preferred the trains underground.

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The company El name was changed to the MBTA(Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority). There was a study of the T and they decided that it would be a good idea just to connect all of the tracks together to make it easier of people to commute.

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Eventually people in the 1970s were told that the MBTA would be stopping and that it may never run again. But the MBTA did not want this to happen. So what they did was bring their board members up from 5 to 7 and then the MBTA was moved to the MassDot side to stop this from happing again. The T has had its moments but to this day it still holds its strengths.