It's great being able to look into the past with old films like this and see what the area was like such a relatively short but also long time ago. I like the Thomas Crown Affair, but The Friends of Eddie Coyle has to be my favorite movie ever. It's totally realistic and gritty.
It was finally released on DVD this year as part of the Criterion collection, and while someone has uploaded it in clips to YouTube, I'd recommend getting the movie itself and watching it that way, you've gotta see it.
There is a substantial ionamount of old MBTA subject matter in here, you can also see a single Budd car go by under it's own power in the background at the Sharon CR station when Jackie Brown is looking in his rearview mirror in addition to the turbo train.
The imagery presented in general is just amazing. There is a mistake where they go through the Sumner or Callahan tunnel to get to Neponset Circle, but who cares, I love seeing the old cars! (I have a 74 Impala)
I was surprised to see that the old Rowe Quarry in Malden was used for a scene in this, I used to play around in there on my bike (when no one was around) back in early 90s and when I saw the quarry/back of the stone crusher in this movie I almost fainted.
-Matt
"Hey, lets go snake hunting and dirt biking on the Saugus Branch, dudes!!!"