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Here are a couple of Haymarket pictures from the early days. The first looks toward the North portal from the N. end of the station The second shows the inner tracks also looking north. These tracks were used by the Lynn & Boston and some BERY cars from the north. There is another pair of tracks...

Actually, I posted it because it is a bit tricky. The car is correctly signed but would not normally pass that location. The reroute was in effect for a few months and involved a lengthy section of temporary track (on which this car is seen). I believe the picture was taken to illustrate the difficu...

Found another one that is too good not to post as a "where is it".
If you know, let them post a few guesses first.
LS

I checked all the atlases I could find (look at "Dorchester Athenaeum" for atlases maps etc.) Before 1884 the maps are not good enough to be sure but from then on it is very clear that the tracks were below grade. From then on they also show the RR station crosswise above the tracks. I am ...

You are correct. There was nothing else like those Ashmont Stairs on the Shawmut Branch.
LS

Remember,
Four tracks Dorchester Ave. to Harrison Sq., two tracks Harrison to Shawmut Jct. and
single track Shawmut Jct to Mattapan.
LS

MBTA3247 wrote:I'm gojng to hazard a guess that we're looking outbound from the present-day location of Butler Station, with the Old Colony's Milton Station just visible beyond the bridge.

The accompanying excerpt is from a BTC photo that will soon be added to the file under discussion. It is so unlike now that I could not resist posting it as a quiz. All us Dorchester boys know the location but it doesn't look like that now. There is enough in the "Dorchester Extension" fil...

Interesting that they believe that they invented the train graph.
They missed that by over a hundred years.
LS

To be fair in comparison, the Needham Line should be compared to the South Chicago Line
and the Milwaukee District West Line to the Providence Div.
LS

Out of town Rail fan friends usually stay at the Motel 6 Boston South Braintree 125 Union St, Braintree, MA ‎ (781) 848-7890 ‎ which is adjacent to the Braintree Commuter rail station and also to the Red Line Rapid Transit Station. So, it is directly served from South Station and Downtown Boston, ac...

This is the "connection" at Lynn. The four rail track continued for a few rail lengths
and, that was it. No idea how or for what it was used.
LS

I don't know very much about the Whitin Machine works or the Linwood St. Ry.
But, I do know that there were more than three 2' electrics. Though I have a few pictures,
I have never seen any records.
LS

Definitely not high res but, it is the right place.
March 1947

The Mount Auburn car has a K controller on the platform, that's pretty final.
The car with the old fashioned roof is however, definitely horse.
LS