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Here we see the 1299 under BERy somewhere around Back Bay I think, possibly Copley Square. Some sort of interchange is taking place here between the El guys and postal crew. This is the West End "New" car and is now vestibuled. http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa26/veryunusual/364e6040-6...

I don't actually know the answer to this, but I would be willing to guess that they have a system in place that identifies a specific Line, Route, and Deviations. They are not as much calling the car but the space that the car occupies so the number always remains the same whether it be a 7 or an 8.

I think that you're right J. I was having a problem with the letters also. As you said, it's probably the U.S.P.S. RPO "U.S.Mail Service" crest instead. Here's the first West End Street Railway Co. RPO car which preceeded the one up above. As you can see, this car was far more open and les...

A friend was nice enough to send along a pic of our West End 1299, now an El car at the Bartlett Car Barn. Notice that the photo was shot at the moment of a humongous earth quake as a giant fissure has just opened up on the Belgium Block ! Hahaha!!! Got ya ! Just a break on the glass negative (befor...

Good catch Joe ! I see it now - West End did a nice job in constructing a nice, flush headlight on the dash. Thank you !
Here's a PCC over one of the inspection pits inside the old Reservoir Car Barn.

Stateside debut to be in November. A new low-floor hybrid (dual power catenary and battery) LRV dubbed the LFX-300. FWIW, this and likely any other streetcar that comes along in the future is just that - a STREETCAR. LRV (for Light Rail Vehicle) was a copyrighted catchy name for streetcars that we ...

I can't help you on that end of their route but I would suggest looking up U.S. Topological Maps for the area at various years to find what you seek.

Not quite the Green Line,but certainly the Grand Daddy of the Green Line, pictured is a nice West End Street Railway Company single trucked 16 foot box Railway Post Office car when Boston transit provided that service. According to my WEStRy Clearance Outline, this was designated a "new" s...

That one sounds entirely possible. And there were steam locomotives all over San Francisco back then, so much so that horse owners demanded and won petitions to have the steam locomotive companies cover the steam engines so that they would look like a trolley or streetcar. They were then called &quo...

When they were doing excavation in and around the Dover Street Yard recently, drill bits kept jamming on old heavy metal buried deep in the ground only to find out that a succession of roads (B&P, NH, MBTA) had all built yards at the location and had used a lot of what had been there at the time...

By analogy with anchor watch and anchor lights, I would guess that anchor steam is the small amount of steam that a ship would keep up while at anchor (that is, maybe just one boiler and/or much less than the pressure for actually steaming along, but enough to run the donkey engines for loading/unl...

I'll speak only for myself here but I do feel the need to come to Amtrak's defense as my experience with them during the time that I and other policemen shuttled between Boston and New York during 2001 World Trade Center operations found Amtrak to be extremely helpful, at times even opening up a car...

We have two records on the same quiz. Lowest points lead ever and lowest margin of victory. Congrats to teamdriver for holding both records. Cue the song "We are the champions" By: Queen. :) I think that he also holds the record as "sole participant" in any of the quizzes ! Team...

Your welcome, TD ! Don't forget to send me your address on Private Message to receive your book !

Sometimes you get a better feeling of where you are if you look at the next street over. Recently, the Illinois Railway Museum brought out their Electroliner set for the holiday, already looking ravishing in preparation for it's complete and total professional restoration scheduled to be completed i...