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Revisiting the Construction of the Washington DC Metro

  • Published October 18, 2013
Nov 1982 | Crews work to complete the building of the tunnel near Forest Glen Station.
Take a look back in time at the construction of the Washington DC Metro with photos from the Metro's Facebook page. See the work that went into building the tunnel near Forest Glen, emergency stairs, Silver Spring station, Gallery Place-Chinatown and Archives.
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How cool are these? We stumbled across them on Metro’s Facebook page.

Tunnel near Forest Glen

Nov 1982 | Crews work to complete the building of the tunnel near Forest Glen Station.
Nov 1982 | Crews work to complete the building of the tunnel near Forest Glen Station.
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