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These cars were out of service for 7 years when they were sold. 3232 was kept in service at Mattapan, and still was unsuitable for rebuilding around 2002. On the other side, some of these were very reliable cars. The MBTA, in its infinite wisdom, chose to retain the last dozen cars from the previous...

jboutiet wrote:It could have been taking power from the headlamp, not the other way around.

I didn't realize this was a four-track tunnel! Still need to fill the tracks with lots and lots of trains to make this thing work. 4 tracks of tunnel, but South Station was only going to have 8 platforms, Central Station 6, and North Station 6 or 8. So that limits the number of the trains that can ...

The Market Street Railway organization in San Francisco (http://www.streetcar.org" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;) has been looking for PCCs that could be made usable for the F line (which itself is due for a short extension in the next few years). I think it likely that th...

It looks like it has some sort of connection to the headlight, perhaps something electrical? And it looks removable since it's blocking the door. Maybe a low voltage battery that hung on the front car and plugged into the headlight? Then again, not sure why that wouldn't run on whatever circuit the...

Anyone know what that box was by the train door on some of the #1 and 2 Main Line Cars? They seem to have appeared and then vanished. Mike Looks like a canvas shield to keep rain from getting into the lock on the screen, and them freezing. Only the screens had locks, not the doors. Seems to have be...

Does anyone have a breakdown of the actual costs of operating a subway car, so that we can have a clearer idea how much money we're talking about here? We can discuss this ad nauseam, but such discussion is not going to change MBTA policy. Also remember that all trains stop at the same point. Deuce...

Gentlemen, >>potential for commuter rail<< >>potential to stimulate growth<< To quote Charlie Brown of Peanuts fame: "There is no heavier burden than a great potential." :-D Personally, I would love to see commuter rail extended to Plaistow; it would be only about three miles from my hous...

Everybody talks about the expense (man-hours & equipment wear) of breaking trains, but it's done all the time on the green line. I've seen one car trains on Sunday mornings on the C & E branches, but they're back to two car trains by mid-morning. If the green line can routinely break/assemb...

This weekends set is by far the most unique all year. First off for the first time ever we have a double ended GP40MC set (1136 leads south, 1126 leads north). Second the 1513 is on the set this time instead of the 1511. Lastly, Kawasaki CTC #1706 is randomly at the very end of the set. What a way ...

The only thing I can find is a switch from Saratoga Street (between Chelsea St and Boardman St) to a continuous routing on Bennington Street for the Orient Heights line. And that is the correct answer. Back in the 1880s, a developer gave the Metropolitan RR land on Saratoga St. for a car house as a...

Leo Sullivan asked me to post this. The photo is taken at Arlington Heights on the South Side of Massachusetts Av. The further building is the Elevated's South Car House, while the closer one is the Lexington and Boston's waiting room, probably brand new in the picture. Here is another photo, taken ...

How many of the P-S cars were transferred over to the MBTA and when/on which lines were the last of the coaches retired? AFAIK a number of them were sent to the North Station lines in the early 1980s and rolled out their final miles on Ipswich/Rockport trains (for those cars that weren't later pick...

This is not well documented online, but if you compare older BERy system maps with those published later, you can find it. The new street was used both north and south of the new section.

Six car (4 man) trains in 1962 in the McLernon era? Which line(s) did they run on? I only recall seeing trains up to 4 cars back then. I didn't think that platforms were long enough for 6 car trains, even using older cars. Orange went to 6 cars in 1987 after the SW Corridor opened and all stops Hay...