Building DC Metro: Vintage Construction Photos

How cool are these? We stumbled across them on Metro’s Facebook page.

Tunnel near Forest Glen

Forest Glen construction

1982 | Building the emergency evacuation staircase and shaft near the now Forest Glen Station. Forest Glen is about 22 stories below ground, so building a staircase for emergencies is crucial.

Silver Spring station construction

1975 | A look at the construction of Silver Spring Station foundation.

Gallery Place-Chinatown 1974

1974 | Looking down at construction of our Gallery Place-Chinatown station

Gallery Place-Chinatown construction

1974 | More construction, as crews build the Metro Gallery Place-Chinatown station.

Archives construction 1975

June 1975 | Inside the construction work at Archives Station

Take a look at the rest of the photos here.

1 thought on “Building the DC Metro: Vintage Construction Photos”

Construction in DC was a nightmare even as early as the 1960’s It was terrible trying to get to work back then. All of DC was fighting every day over it. They were still even fighting over a monorail system back then too. In some areas you had to close the windows and not breathe for blocks in the heat of summer too.

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