Where To Stream American Experience Season 29 Episode 3
The Race Underground
- Aired January 31, 2017
- 60 Min
- Rated 10.0
- Number 1 Of 108 Rated Episodes
In the late 19th century, as America's teeming cities grew increasingly congested, the time had come to replace the nostalgic horse-drawn trolleys with a faster, cleaner, safer, and more efficient form of transportation. Ultimately, it was Boston — a city of so many firsts — that overcame a litany of engineering challenges, the greed-driven interests of businessmen, and the great fears of its citizenry to construct America's first subway. Based in part on Doug Most's acclaimed book of the same...