Boston Gas Company buried steel pipe corrosion and gas leaks

Boston Gas (now NSTAR/National Grid) training facility holds excavated 1880s gas distribution components — cast iron sleeves and bell-and-spigot joints filled with oakum.

When I talk about improving the reliability of joints — I had a case, and Boston Gas doesn't even exist anymore, they're NSTAR or National Grid now. If you go down to their training facility in the South part of Boston — not South Boston, the South part of Boston. South Boston is just east of Boston. The South End is east, the southeast is west of Boston, the North End is east — they go through all these directions and they're all mixed up.