It seems as if you can be almost anywhere in the country now (and probably then some) and see old MBTA equipment. Most (if not all) are rusting away in silence. I exchanged a series of emails with a gentleman in East Troy, Wisconsin a few years ago who was running East Boston Tunnel cars as one car trains on his farm, many PCC's have been sent all over, East Boston cars have gone to the United States Department of Transportation for crash testing, and a couple of 600's (0616-17) recently got placed inside the Broadway Tunnel for emergency training. There's even a mystery here as well. The borough of Brooklyn revoked Bob Diamond's right to maintain his fleet of PCC's (many of which were ex-Boston) at their previous location, so he placed them on a pier in Red Hook for storage while he looked at his options. One day, while visiting the cars, a few were missing ! They just mysteriously disappeared ! I understand that the NYPD was called who interviewed potential witnesses including the security guards who supposedly were working at the time that the cars were removed. They "saw nothing", or perhaps I should say "saw nuttin".
The crime scene courtesy of my friend Sheryl:
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