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Does anybody out there remember - or even better, remember using the Lagrange St. entrance to Boylston Station on the outbound (then Main Line) Orange Line ? I discovered it by accident a while back while patrolling on foot (Boston Police Officer) checking the entrance for unsavories. A soon to be r...

I wouldn't be too quick to erase Maglev technology because of the German collision with a maintenance vehicle. This was surely an "accident" in every sense of the word, and not a "malfunction". If the Maglev proponents previously called the Maglev "accident-proof", that...

I may see you down there Leo, but I don't think that you are wrong. I can't imagine a westerly diversion from straight rail on Wash all the way from Columbus to the old Forest Hills archway "back in the day". I don't see any other possible explanation. I can tell you that that storefront i...

Leo Sullivan- I think that you are right and that there is no question as regards the location of the Queen Mary - It's at Wash between Burnett and Brookley heading northerly, about to turn into the Arborway yard towards the back of the Lotus Place shop. I've been looking at the picture and I have t...

I could be mistaken (it's been known to happen) but I believe that the sleek lines of the car compared to trolleys which preceeded it seemed regal and modernistic, and was reminescent of the ship of the same name which was in use at the time, and was also considered to be sleek. So, a second "Q...

I'm with you Aline ! Forest Hills and the Arborway saw a lot of cool stuff - the "Queen Mary", Trackless Trolleys, all sorts of Boston and Eastern Mass trolleys and busses - it always has been a happening place ! To only have a time-machine ! I would love to have been able to take a photo ...

George is up at the Sunbridge Care and Rehabilitation Center - 134 North St., North Reading, MA 01864 - would love to hear from all transit lovers. Send your read mags and stuff.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this accident does not indefinitely suspend (at the very least) Maglev technology advancement and acceptance. This appears to have been a careless accident (work car on right of way) which has nothing to do with the maglev system, but could have been anywhere on a...

That shot is Washington Street at Brookley Road heading southerly (towards Forest Hills). The turnout would have taken the "Queen Mary" into the Lotus Place shops at the Arborway. You most likely will still find those houses at this location as they have not changed. Looking skyward, you w...

It's a work car known as a differential dump car. Boston had quite a few of them. The Seashore Trolley Museum has at least one, I think. They were used for a multitude of things from carrying ballast to debris and dumping it. I have a picture I shot of one of the old Boston Elevated differentials on...

blink55184 wrote:Does anyone have any pictures of the A line still in service?
The only one I have seen is of Brighton Center, and its just the tracks and wires, busses were already running.

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The tracks south of Heath St. on the old Arborway Line are pretty much still there - they have been paved over. Also, the "trolley station" that now exists at Forest Hills Station was never used as a trolley station. Trolleys terminated at the Arborway when the line was running. The Arborw...

Hi Folks ! Does anybody out there know specifically at what corner did the Mount Hope Station in Roslindale exist ? The station was between Forest Hills and Hyde Park. On both sides of suspected locations, abandoned lots exist to this day. There is an old abandoned staircase at Florence/Blakemore St...