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Music is too loud and sounds like the Benny Hill Show - turn it off please.

We as women come a long way. We are trying to end sexism one step at a time

Not happy with the vantage point, looking at the inside of the car isn’t the least bit interesting. The camera could have panned around been closer the front to get cab forward view .

Today's Newton Corner is a harrowing experience for the uninitiated. I've driven it my whole life and it still raises my blood pressure.

Type 5s, PCCs, and Boeing LRVs all in the same operation. Now if only they did this railfan charter several years later when the Type 7s started to arrive. That would be 4 generations of trolleys in the same train parade, each stuffed with railfans! ☺️

I worked on this project thats my red truck at 5:15

Everyone living the moment, not a Dunkin Donuts in sight.

These old Bluebird / Redbird cars, they were the last true subway cars on the T. Ever since the MBTA has purchased what I call metrorail cars.

So the vintage 1400’s had no door chime but they did have a distorted BING-BOMG PA chime?

When Boston was still gritty and not yet a swanktuary city. I miss those days. 😢

I GREW UP ALONG THE ORANGE LINE. @ 22:00 I COULD SMELL THE PISS!

Great video. Cool street cars. Quétion Dĩd they fix those flashing traffic lights? I like those cool classic cars.

I wish they recorded the old buses aswell. I tried finding videos of the old buses traveling, couldn't find anything.

These trains are 30 years old

I like the New Medford SLASH tufts route. - I like how they say Medford SLASH tufts....on the announcements. I take it from Medford Tufts and you usually get a type seven which is nice. with the inidvidual seats so I get my pick of the seats. =) its nice you can switch from the D train to the E UNION SQUARE to MEDFORD TUFTS at North Station or Lechemere as well.

Why would you want to continue to subject yourself to the torture of wearing a mask (that wont even protect you from Covid) - any longer than the government forced us to? The sheeple are truly amazing.

People that are still too afraid of Covid, etc. to still be wearing masks .. LOL . when they dont work except as ameans of government control. WAKE UP PEOPLE.

These trains are 30 years old

No rust on the roofs

I'm glad I got to see, ride and film it on color movie film many decades ago.

It's funny that the primary reason the T refused to put the street cars back in to the Arborway was it would interfere with vehicle traffic. Now we put in dedicated bus ways and bike routes and force all vehicles to stay in one lane.

Rode this many times from late ‘60s to mid ‘80s…always fun…I used to think the Eisenhower sign (above tracks) at 24:35 was a bygone remnant….but I read somewhere that it was actually a prop from a movie that was not removed after filming….not sure if anyone has better info on that…

Not much different than riding the Red Line today.

Back then, the 1800 series was brand new.

. The PA chimes sounded bad at 6:02 but it could be the VHS quality or the old school cars actually had those creepy sounding chimes. I guess this was the year before the 1800 series were introduced?

At 36:21, I can't hear a thing the conductor says due to the squeaking wheels. It sounds like Charlie Brown's teacher. 😄

I miss the hawker siddley orange line trains so much

When I moved to Jamaica Plain in 1979 the trolley was still 15 cents and the Arborway line was famous for being the most crowded and slowest line in the whole T system. If you caught a trolley at Park Street at 10 PM, it would still be standing room only. During rush hour, you'd be waiting for half an hour for a trolley, then it would pass you by because it was completely packed with commuters.

I looked at this to see the neighborhoods of Mission Hill and Jamaica Plain where I lived as a young man back in the eighties. Trains...well I think it takes a special kind of locomotive fetish to follow and film trains for hours on a cold and wet wintry day. But thanks for a limited peek back in time at the environs I used to inhabit back in the day.

I actually wrote a fiction novel, with the Watertown Line being the primary inspiration. I want to eventually get it published, but just don’t have the money right now 😢

Hi. Watching the years from 1979 - 1989 I rod those trolleys on those tracks during the years I didn’t know what to do with my life. The trolleys provided the transportation to my eventual enlightenment. Since then, having found what to do and did it, I empathize with the young folks experiencing the same but having the extra burden of an unreliable transit system on their journey. Thanks.

Boeing,now has problems with the 737's,mayhaps the problems migrated from Philadelphia[where the LRV's were constructed],anyway,Karma!! Thank you 😇 😊!

This video was from August-September of 1985, the last few months the T was running PCCs on the Green Line.

❤love the music. i lived in allston 1942-55. sweet nostalgia for a simpler time.

2:33, 3234 still survives today in Mattapan. It was rebuilt last year at the MBTA’s Everett Shops, with the installation of interior components and inspections by MBTA personnel at the Mattapan Car house in Dorchester, MA.

Car 3230, shown at 28:00 still survives today in Mattapan. I rode it in March 2022.

Red line lit but wrta the sounds are fire

a women named Joanne is the new voice for the T

Wow, this is nostalgic AF!!! Both the PCC's and the RTS buses! I know I sound old, but these really are the sights and sounds of my "yout" lol.

I used to like when one of the arms would pop off the wire and the driver would have to get out and try to connect it back on

Crazy how little has changed (I say this neutrally).

Wow, Boston really had an immaculate system all the way into the early 90's.

Serene.

Echoing other commenters, I was -5 years old when this was taken 🤔

Beautiful natural vignette effect created by the window + paint(?smudge?) on the glass -- like an old photograph. 15:28 is absolutely cinematographic!

Woo Thanks for uploading! Great piece of media.

Awesome vid.

Weird to see Davis Square station all clean and not covered in mildew

That bus goes to Park Street ?