🚀 go-pugleaf

|> 
|> Now what *I* don't understand is why that sharp turn kludge was created
|> at Harvard when the line was extended.  This causes all trains to run at
|> dead slow for several minutes chewing up a lot of time,  not to mention
|> that awful squealing of the wheels.   I realize the old part of the line
|> is very shallow in Cambridge (cut-and-cover vs a tunnel) and a straighter
|> extension would have gone through the basement of the Coop, but they
|> sure tunneled deep later on - couldn't they have started the deep part
|> earlier?     

The story I have heard (and maybe even believe) is that Widener (spelling?), when
s/he left the money to found the library, had it instituted that there could be
no structural changes to the library building.  Any curvature of the red line
would have take the tracks closer to the foundation of the building, which would
have been considered a structural change.

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Robbie Smith:  lost@mit.edu
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