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MBTA, Boston. Orange Line 1975
Proof that tripods are essential and that you must not mix different types of film in the same project. Greatly enhanced (saved) with Windows Movie Maker. Copyrighted material. If you use my movie for ANY purpose give proper credit.
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MBTA, Boston,Green Line, 1976
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A lot of Arborway, Lechmere, some Riverside. One all too brief clip of North Station surface loop. Sorry about the jerkiness caused by damaged sprockets. Copyrighted material. If you use my movie for ANY purpose give proper credit
MBTA, Boston, Mattapan, 1976-1980
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Mattapan Ashmont, MBTA Boston, circa 1976. Expensive cameras in the hands of the inexperienced, .a recipe for disaster. LOL Copyrighted material. If you use my movie for ANY purpose give proper credit
A little Boston, MBTA, light rail action. May 2014
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A little Boston, MBTA, light rail action. Copyrighted material. If you use my movie for ANY purpose give proper credit,
How to irk all religions and atheists at the same time.
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In trying to offend nobody everybody is offended. Really, If you don't know who you are praying to why bother?
Boston by streetcar, 1903. Boston Elevated Railway trolley and elevated cars.
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Touring around Boston by streetcar, trolley, 1903. Edison, North Station, South Station, Atlantic Ave. El. Copley Sq. Huntington Ave.
🍀☘️Malden N$P
As a young HS graduate in 1972 I would ride the trolley from Arborway to Prudential at 5:30 in the morning to my job in the mailroom of Prudential Insurance. In winter those cars were cold and equally hot in the summer. Thanks for the great memories
I GREW UP IN EVERETT ON BROADWAY ACROSS THE STREET FROM EVERETT STATION. THE ORANGE LINE WAS MY BABYSITTER.
I remember Lechmere Sales right next door
Charlestown, though rich today, looked quite poor back then, like a rundown UK industrial town. Yet there's not a single graffito in sight, unlike New York City where the trains were covered with it!
3:50 There was a wooden trestle for the tunnel portal up ramp back then! Which means originally there were plans to extend the subway, perhaps out to Packard's Corner.
I used to hook school in Somerville and we would grab all the transfer tickets out of the dumpster to ride the T-line all day long. We mostly took the green line but sometimes the Orange line into Boston. Sometimes the Charlestown kids would be at North Station mugging and robbing you of your money or chains you had around your neck. I remember there was two of us and about 15 of them and they had us against the wall shaking us down and they looked at us and said let em go. They are worse off than us. We all laughed. We were on our way to Fenway for free jacket day in the bleachers.
Growing up in Mattapan I rode that trolley many times, perhaps in the cars shown. I know that various PCC cars worked that line over the many years it has been in operation, but it's the ex-Dallas two-ended cars that I remember.
They should have kept the streetcar and gotten rid of the autos
There used to be 450 miles of streetcars in and around Boston and they should have kept every mile!
I remember seein' lots of 1100s, in Cabot Yard, Southie, in the 1980s. My guess was that they were cannibalizin' them to keep the Red Line 1400s in service.
They were stored at Cabot pending possible sale. When this did not pan out they were junked. Nothing was salvaged for future use. Almost no parts of 01100s were compatible with 01400s. I worked in Cabot shops from 1986 to 2007.
If you do not have a serious train fetish this video is very boring; not to mention frustrating as one would like to see more of the people and places in 1976. But no trains, and more trains. Ugh!
Hence the title, "MBTA, Boston, Green Line, 1976" instead of "Boston, People and Places, 1976."
St Patrick's Day 1980 Filled with teenagers off to SB for the parade. Dudley station A story to be told
In 1975 I was a senior in high School in Leominster. I "called in sick" as I recall to go to Bostin and ride the last trip out of Everett. I told the secretary at school what I was up to, and she was encouraging, but thought it was a bit odd too. When ever that fan trip was with the older orange line car, I was on that too. I spent a Saturday walking the line through Charletown photographing it. Different times. Thank you.
In my alternate universe, this form of light rail tramway would have been deployed on many of the currently being converted to bike path rights of way inside of the Route 128 beltway, after the highway expansion was cancelled in the early 1970's. Notice how it is not out of scale in the local land use context, and immune to the street congestion, that a bus route would experience.
I was always wondering, why I've hardly ever seen trains on the orange, blue, and red lines with their headlights on, even in subways?
Why was there a motorman in the second car? At 7:00-7:14 in the second car 3102 a motorman is reading a newspaper, and of course from the accident at 9:40
Actually that is a conductor in the second and third cars. He/she collected fares and opened/closed the doors.
Memories! I can still mimic the clattering of the wheels as it went from Charleston into the old Sullivan Station.
It’s like watching ghosts
Not enough footage from the Forest Hills section.
NOW THIS IS SPECIAL!!!!!
Awesome video...my grandfather was an Orange Line conductor...retired about 1970...looks like the North Station elevated station was replaced in '75 so this must be early '75...classic video...
YOU CAN SEE THE SKYLIGHTS FOR THE NEW STATION ON CANAL ST. @0:48
The 01100s were similar in design to the Cleveland Blue Line "Bluebirds" of 1955 (also SMEEs), the 1963 Red Line 01400s and the 1951 East Boston cars. While the 01100s and 01400s were 400 HP each car, the Cleveland cars were only 220 HP - probably the weakest of the SMEE family.
The Red Line 01400s were also known as the "bluebirds" and the 01500 and 01600 Pullmans were known as the "silverbirds" because of their brushed aluminum surface. I don't know about the 1951 East Boston cars though.
City square north station
I just noticrd that the Boston PCC type L trains had their airhorn on the roof above the motorman cab. Plus they had no blinker doors and picture windows like the ones in Chicago. 😊
missing is the sound of those doors opening and closing, groan and squeaks. and the smell of ancient trolley cars going down commonwealth ave., where i grew up
Love seeing the ex Dallas cars
I remember the elevated Orange Line in Jamaica Plain
Manufacterer: Pullman Standard Length: 55' Width: 9' 8.00" Height: 11' 10.00" Weight: 57540 Ibs. Motor: Number 4 Manufacterer: General Steel Model: 1250A1 Trucks: Number 2 Manufacterer: General Steel Model: 70 Seats: 46 Control: General Electric MCM/C-3 Brakes: SMEE Total: 1100-1199 (100) Constructed: 1957-1958 In Service:.1957-1981 Scrapped: 1981-1987 Acquired By Museum: 1178/1179 in 1991
I was in eighth grade in 1969 and would skip school about once a months and spend all day riding the el. The ol' Pullman cars had no governors back then and with a young motorman driving you could have a ride better than Paragon Park's giant Commit roller coaster!!!!
RIP PCCs 1937-1985 RIP Boeing LRVs 1976-2007
3415 3418 3420 3421 Entered Passenger trip on The D Line on December 30, 1976. 3485 3499 Entered Last Passenger trip on The D Line on March 16, 2007 PCC's discontinued Passenger Trips by 1985. After the E line got cut from Forest Hills all the way to Northeastern University. Following year Kinki Sharyo Type 7's arrived and made Passenger trips on Summer of 1986. The Breda Type 8's made a Passenger trip on May, 1999. Although due to axle problems. They were taken out of service. By 2007 a sufficient amount of Type 8 were on active rail.
Boston-a 1st Class city with a 3rd class transit system.
Used to be the best in America, especially when this was filmed through the the next 30 years or so...now a different story, a laughing stock with the ineptness of the MBTA
@@HayastAnFedayi You can also thank NIMBYist folk with their bad opinionated perceptions too, that's also everywhere else. . .that's why MBTA can't fulfill the 1945 grand masterplan for expansion- there recently were two exceptions: expanding The Green Line service into Medford (Union Square and Medford/Tufts), while the other lines continue operating along Forever Block awaiting expansion.
@@kenmills4739 don't get me started on the NIMBY's and their hand in stopping the transportation plans of the region coming to fruition, both rail and roadway, don't get me wrong there will always be issues and dissent, but there should have been compromise on it. For example, rather than just outright scrapping the Inner Belt and other cancelled highways, there could have been a way for it to have been made as a tunnel beltway under the city...but instead the NIMBY's cry and we are left with only I-93 and the always the question of "why has 93 always have had bad traffic and why didn't the Big Dig help get rid of the traffic?"
Also, the MBTA is underfunded since massdot for the last more than 20 years has been spending money on tunnels that don’t even fix traffic and in some areas make it worse
No one would lose elections screwing transit users; the politicians knew that.
Amazing footage.im from Cambridge
Great videos!!! Thanks for posting. I love the T
This is a amazing film..seeing the clocks and looking back 129 years is like a gift..my greatgrandparents lived in boston... Roxbury.. . 5hanks for this film....I'm saving it....
Everything looks super run down.
Wow! I noticed some of the transpo needs body works. Slight damages. Does the train still run today?
Sure does! Many of the PCCs are from the 40s and 50s!
However, not a lot of the cars shown here. Many of these are ex-Dallas double-enders - you can tell them by the bars on the side windows - which are all now gone.
The fact that these Boston subway trains were not covered in graffiti in 1975 tells me that graffiti on subway trains was just a New York thing.
It is policy in Boston that grafitti is removed immediately. The "artist's" work is never seen. He just wasted a lot of time and money to get no satisfaction.
@@pudgyv5223 Oh ok, got it. Yeah in 1975 New York City was going though a financial crisis, so the city (and state) did not have the resources to do what Boston was doing by removing graffiti off subway trains. Make sense..
@@amazing50000 Don't be fooled: NYC always has the resources, it was always spent on condominiums and other pieces of coming up Real Ass•state that doesn't blend well with any city.
@@pudgyv5223 Well there IS this place called a stage.
@@amazing50000 Bull: I lived in NYC all of my life up to 2020. . .NYC ALWAYS has the resources to use/do what's necessary, but the trouble is spending always goes to building up condominiums in a single overnight bound appeasing money•spending folk, then you have greedy/conflict• savvy/prozac induced/mindset folk who continually sow seeds of discord making life a living hell for others, and when it comes down to REAL issues like fixing up and preserving our transit networks (especially everywhere else) so another generation of folk can experience what it's like when transit was king, "there's never enough and/or any available resources" (excuses to go as well).
I enjoyed video
I love video
I grew up with the Washington Street Elevated and the 01100 trains. What nice memories!
I ride all those orange line trains and today train new one my 4th orange line cars the 3rd one shouldn’t not wait almost 50 yrs before breakdown see what happen train leave Wellington going to assembly caught on fire they should change 30 yrs trains for new one
Back in the 90's we used to run 23 trips a day!
Wow! Talk about looking like it's ready to fly off the rails!
You've to be a real geek to enjoy watching old movies of trolley cars. Well, I am and I do. I spent many hours on the MTA's PCC cars (mostly Ashmont-Mattapan, Cleveland Circle/Beacon Street) until the early 70s when I moved away. But I developed into a rail fan and several Boston PCC cars appear on my model railroad layouts. Thanks for the memories.
Anyone else realize those same trains were still in service till a few months ago lmao
It was their replacements that served until a month or so ago. Every train in the movie has been out of srevice for over35 years.
Great video did you work for the T or who ever filmed this they are on the ROW
I did work for the T a number of years after making this film. In those days the right of way was not fenced and the company didn't seem concerned about trespassers.
Ok I currently work for the T now Track Walker on the Red line but have worked on all the lines 17 years on
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Tearing down the El and relocating the Orange Line left Washington Street underserved for rapid transit.
@Bob Washington Street looks like it shrunk up after the el was removed; if anything, line routes could have been built along Blue Hill Avenue, or alongside with the commuter rail trains to/from Readville, or build completely underground (NIMBYists didn't want any el) to Malden Square after Everett, or 'completely' convert The Fairmount Branch of the commuter rail instead of adding on bits-n-pieces to make it "look" like rapid transit.
The mistake they made was not building the line UNDER ground on Washington Street in the first place. Had that happened, it would still be here today.
OH YES I REMEMBER. SUCH. AWESOME. MEMORIES
yes.. I did grow up in Boston from 1960 to 1978, also I rode the MBTA.
so in 1975 how did some make this color picture while standing on the tracks ??
Kodachrome 25 and Ektachrome 160 film in Bolex H-16 camera. Nobody was on the tracks.