Green Line Extension to Medford & Union Sq

etik said:
Had to give a mid-day update:
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The landlord is going to jack the price up and show these places like crazy for Sept 1 with all that new sunlight... That will disappear by December.
 
Wow, they are banging down the old elevated at incredible speed. Fantastic photos!
 
Vagabond said:
The landlord is going to jack the price up and show these places like crazy for Sept 1 with all that new sunlight... That will disappear by December.
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At the same time it's an active construction site? I'd rather the viaduct.
 
Are the tall grey cylinders the pre-poured vertical elements of the future GLX viaduct?
 
Are there any local facilities to recycle steel girders, or do they have to ship them overseas to be recycled?
 
citydweller said:
Are there any local facilities to recycle steel girders, or do they have to ship them overseas to be recycled?
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The closest place I know of is in Maine.. I'm not sure if there are others close by.
 
citydweller said:
Are there any local facilities to recycle steel girders, or do they have to ship them overseas to be recycled?
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Golly, I think of scrap steel as the main thing powering the "mini mill" steel industry in the USA (and that we generally do recycle "all our own" basic metals aluminum, copper, brass, and lead).

Versus, say electronic scrap and plastic which does go overseas.
 
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So I assume they drill the hole for the soldier pile, lower it in there and backfill with concrete? But I've never seen a concrete truck down there.
 
Arlington said:
Golly, I think of scrap steel as the main thing powering the "mini mill" steel industry in the USA (and that we generally do recycle "all our own" basic metals aluminum, copper, brass, and lead).

Versus, say electronic scrap and plastic which does go overseas.
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Tons of places do it. Where the beams go probably depends on how many pieces they have to get cut into to fit the biggest bite any nearer-by facility can feasibly take vs. needing to send further away. Schnitzer Northeast is a big-ass steel scrapper at Everett Terminal with barge & rail access (they're right on the other side of the power plant couple blocks in from Alford St. via Dexter & Rover), but I don't know how big a meal their machinery can take. If not them, then there's some rail-served ones in Maine who get fed for months at a time by Portsmouth Navy Yard when they're scrapping whole ships who can most definitely handle the Viaduct beams.
 
F-Line to Dudley said:
Tons of places do it. Where the beams go probably depends on how many pieces they have to get cut into to fit the biggest bite any nearer-by facility can feasibly take vs. needing to send further away. Schnitzer Northeast is a big-ass steel scrapper at Everett Terminal with barge & rail access (they're right on the other side of the power plant couple blocks in from Alford St. via Dexter & Rover), but I don't know how big a meal their machinery can take. If not them, then there's some rail-served ones in Maine who get fed for months at a time by Portsmouth Navy Yard when they're scrapping whole ships who can most definitely handle the Viaduct beams.
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F-Line -- I remember back about 30-40 years there used to be several Huge Piles of things which could not be reduced further such as Automobile Engine Blocks. I think the place was called Prolerized or something similar

A Tanker-sized ship would appear from time to time -- essentially where the Casino is located -- a huge crane with a Bigg-ass Electromagnet would hoist a few tons of Engine Blocks at a-time and the dump them into the ship

Scrap-iron used to be a major Boston Export
 
etik said:
A timelapse was posted on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/h8z0m8
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Spectacular -- especially as Full Screen

Very Near & Dear to me -- about the time my Father was being born -- his Father commuted over from some tenement in Somerville to work on the Lechmere Viaduct project

Family lore has it that there's a signature somewhere -- I'm guessing just initials
 
What is that wonderful green retaining wall and why dont all walls look like that
 
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