Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line (PCC Trolley Cars in Boston)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- The rolling stock of the Ashmont--Mattapan Line consists of rebuilt PCC streetcars that formerly ran on the Green Line. A similar streetcar can be seen in a side tunnel at Boylston station on the Green Line.
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The Ashmont--Mattapan High Speed Line or also known as the "M-Line" in Boston and Milton, Massachusetts is considered to be part of the MBTA's Red Line, even though it uses different equipment (streetcars) and passengers have to change at Ashmont. The only MBTA line to run through a cemetery, the line opened on August 26, 1929. The term 'high speed line' is vestigial, as the route is neither characterized by a fully dedicated, grade separated right-of-way, nor by high-speed rolling stock. 
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Pretty fast for a streetcar! Specially for one having the trolley pole system which can get easily dewired!
"High-speed" to me is a misnomer here. Last time I rode this about 5 years ago the fastest they went was about 30 MPH. Still enjoyed the ride very much.
nyshortline for a tram 30 is high speed
Nostalgic!
As I know it is quite rare type of PCC cars - it is rapid line modification with couplings and 2-side doors. Such cars used to ride in trains of 2-3 cars on several lines over both Americas.
Hi Tim - when Leeds City Tramways was in existence, the reserved tracks were officially called "express tracks".
Also operated by green line operators.
I CALL THEM STREET CARS....TROLLEY BUSES HAVE NO TRACKS LOL.....BUT I'M A BIG FAN OF THE STREET CAR CARS PERIOD ......PEOPLE ARE LUCKY TO BE ABLE TO RIDE ON THEM....CHEERS
Yeah, to be über-geeky:
> A trolley, or tram outside of North America, is a vehicle that runs on rails and (usually) uses an overhead current pickup. They're different from trains because they usually operate as single or double cars, and when coupled there isn't a connecting door for passengers to go from one to the other.
> A streetcar is simply a trolley that normally runs on rails set in or next to a street.
> A trolleybus, or trackless trolley, is a rubber-tired/tyred vehicle that gets its power from two overhead wires.
WHERE I'M FROM MILWAUKEE THEY CALLED THEM TROLLEY BUSES.....CHEERS.
+Chris Dorsey At the risk of getting into "how many angels can dance on a trolley wire", I've never been able to come up with an ironclad way of saying what is/isn't a trolley. Strictly speaking, the name comes from the early "trollers" that were hauled on top of the wire by a slack cable; its (no apostrophe) name came from the resemblance to a boat trolling for fish. Trollers tended to dewire, and Sprague's development of the spring-loaded pole was what made power-collection reliable and practical.
Where things get dicey for me is having visited cities where cars that were originally built with poles were modified to use pans instead. They travel the same routes and are effectively the same vehicle from the roofline down; are they still trolleys after the modification? Railroad philosophers could have a field day! :)
+Eric Edmund That's interesting. According to my history sources, Milwaukee was served by both standard trolleys (streetcars) and trolley buses. The info I have says streetcar service was gradually converted to trackless trolley buses starting around 1950. The last tracked streetcars ran in 1958, and trackless trolley operation only lasted another 7 years. Can you confirm that info?
In Atlanta, before they were done away with, we called them Trolley Coaches. The last ones were seemingly specially made for Atlanta as I have seen them nowhere else. You can find photo's of them on the internet. They have wide swath of "chrome" in the mid section and on the front a medallion, but after advertising the signs covered up the medallion for Pepsi Cola and such as that. The Southwestern museum in Duluth, Ga. (part of metro area) has one of those trolley buses but they obviously could not find a medallion so it is blank.
good trains.
and - a nice video)
oh my god THE OLD HOOD LIFE IN THE OL DAYS MURDER-PAN LIFE IN THE OL DAYS
TTC would've rebuilt these PCCs.
Him do a zoom.
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