An 01100 series passes the remnants of Tower D while heading outbound towards Dover Street Station. The Boston Elevated Railway Company's Tower D was situated where the Main Line Elevated and Atlantic Avenue Elevated met at Washington/Castle Streets (now Herald St.) The Atlantic Avenue Elevated operated between 1901 and 1938, bringing rapid transit to silk, textile, and garment factories, South Station, the wharfs, railway yards, and the North End. A shuttle service was provided between South and North Stations. Stations on the line were Beach Street, South Station, Rowes Wharf, State Street, and Battery Street. It made connections with the NYNH&H RR, B&A RR, NYC, B&M RR, and BRB&L RR ferry. The Atlantic Avenue Elevated was threatened in 1919 by the Great Molasses Flood, when 2.3 million gallons of molasses from a ruptured tank on Commercial Street severed El girders and derailed an elevated train, lifting it off its rails by hydraulic force, beyond Battery Street Station. Contrary to urban myth, it did not bring an end to the elevated.

Photographed by Paul Joyce, February, 1986.
Added to the photo archive by Paul Joyce, June 6, 2006.

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