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In November of 1989 when I was a sophomore at my suburban public high school, my photography class, along with our Pentax K1000s, took a "photo trek" field trip that began at the Christian Science Plaza and ended at Faneuil Hall. I remember passing through the corridors pictured above, and...

This is the reorganized, rebranded, and reincorporated Alitalia, which will cease operations (under that brand at least) next Friday.

Nice. I believe Towanda is an old name for it, and might be its actual formal name. It was home to a ski area into the 1970s, and the remnants are still visible, along with the ruins of the old Woburn Reservoir. There is or was a social club called the Towanda Club in in Woburn, so I assume that...

Where in Woburn? Mt Towanda? (aka Horn Pond Mountain)

Two weeks ago I saw several recently installed yellow signs that were still wrapped along I-93 between Medford and Wilmington, one sign was partially unwrapped and said something along the lines of "Caution: Breakdown Lane In Use By Buses". I assume these will be for the...

The former Dedo, née Luxor. I spent the afternoon of 9/11/2001 there, drinking and drinking, but never getting drunk. I probably could have safely operated a backhoe upon leaving there. It's amazing what adrenaline and shock (or whatever blocked the alcohol's effects that day) can do to your...

Maybe that's why it wasn't approved the first time it was brought up at Town Meeting in the early 70s (though a lot of opposition at the time was due to local support for Woburn's Choate Hospital and Winchester Hospital.. In the end, it didn't end up looking a whole like that. It was a just as...

Yeah, that was one of the tanneries responsible, there were some more up by where Anderson RTC is now. The smokestacks stood until the mid to late 90s. I remember when they imploded one of them, my father swears he could feel the concussion from it on Mill St in Burlington (he also said that he...

Yeah, I grew up just under three miles away, on the other side of the Mill Pond Reservoir in Burlington and would occasionally bike over that way with friends, mostly via trails through the conservation areas and under the Edison lines. It, like its twin in Billerica, was always such a...

That cupola still exists. It's currently doing time (with a lower clock) as the steeple to the Calvary United Methodist Church on Massachusetts Avenue in Arlington.

Not only that, Lambert embarked on a massive $1 billion runway expansion in the late 90s that displaced 6,000 residents, abut was completed after TWA was merged with American and ended its role as a hub, making the new runway very, very redundant.

Here it is, he says it within the first ten seconds of the clip.

That horn, WTF? To quote Mel Brooks in Spaceballs: "Where are we, Paris?!"

I crossed Montana on the Empire Builder four years ago, its arrival is probably the biggest event of the day in many of the towns where it stops, it's a true lifeline to the outside world. I also noticed a lot of Canadian plates on cars parked in the station lots of some of the longer service...

I flew Norwegian from PVD to DUB and back on the (unbeknownst to me, or most people at the time) extra-crashy 737-MAX in October, 2018, returning five days before Lion Air Flight 610 went down. I was impressed by the aircraft because it was brand new, roomy, and perfectly comfortable for a...

What is "Bullfinch" [sic] on the Orange line?

That is great, cheers to you! As a former park ranger, I love the NPS Unigrid format.

I wonder when that was done. While heading to Wilmington on the Commuter Rail last Monday afternoon, I saw a P42 with that logo pushing a southbound Downeaster into Anderson/Woburn. I don't recall the engine number.

I guess I stand corrected, I had seen a map at one point that showed that square area under control of the US government. It may have reflected a subparcel or a long term lease from BRA (which don't always show up on the online assessing maps; for example, the MBTA tunnels underneath the Plaza...

This is from today. They kept a portion of the stairs intact, and it appears that there may be a second tunnel beneath them. Meanwhile, they've cut two trenches a few feet into the floor of the former tunnel, but obviously not deep enough to penetrate the Green Line tunnel, and have begun...