Boston PCC Streetcar & Subway Scenes - 1960s & 70s
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2018
- This presentation features Boston, Massachusetts PCC streetcar and subway scenes, including some 8mm movies. There are pictures at Watertown and Arborway, as well as some on the Mattapan-Ashmont Line. There are also some photos of old cars running on the Blue Line.
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My grandma and I (she lived in Somerville ) used to take a bus then a st car and then the subway into Boston in the 60s. She would take me to the swan rides too Such good memories
Hi Evelyn, Thanks for watching, for taking the time to comment, and for sharing your memories. Stay well. Cheers, tassiebaz..
Thank you very much for posting this. I enjoyed it tremendously. I rode all of those lines during the times pictured. Great memories.
Hi James, Thanks for watching and for your comment. I'm glad you liked the presentation and appreciate you taking the time to let me know. It's a pleasure to share these memories with you. Cheers, tassiebaz. 😄
I used to go see my aunts, uncles and cousins in Malden and Melrose when I was growing up and we used to ride the trains for fun, the orange line had an elevated section going through Roxbury back then. I had plenty of trains to ride on when I lived in Germany but not here in Ohio.
Hi woxyroxme, Thanks for watching and for sharing your memories. Cheers, tassiebaz. 😁
memories of growing up in brookline early 60s, taking the green line to north station on the L to watch the celtics
Hi FrenchmansFlats51, Thanks for watching and for sharing your memories. Cheers, tassiebaz. 😁
The stuff between 1960 and 1964 really brought me back.
Hi Pudgyv, Yes, that was the good old days. Regards, tassiebaz.
Interesting the old Orange Line cars were painted Orange and Gray _before_ the T started implementing the Cambridge Seven livery scheme (which was later changed for good reason!)
Hi Edward, Thanks for watching and for your comment. Cheers, tassiebaz.
Interesting bus and streetcar ads. In several scenes, the ads are mounted above the windows, along the roof, facing the street. In NYC there used to be something called "batwings." They were illuminated but shorter. These ads on Boston transit look like they are about double in height. Bus at 5:10. Two streetcars at 7:00.
OMG so many memories....! Although I'm such an old bag I have a few memories of trains on what ( I believe?) was called the Highland Branch, before the Green Line --Riverside began in 1959
Hi yawhause, Thanks for watching and for your comment. Your memories are slightly older than mine, but at least the Highland Branch became and useful and practical transit operation instead of just another abandoned train line like so many others around that time. Regards, tassiebaz.
Imagine Trolley's built in 1941 are still running everyday on the Ashmont Mattapan line!
Hi James, Yes, great isn't it!!!. I enjoy the places still using older equipment, and so enjoy, Boston, San Francisco, New Orleans, and some overseas properties. Regards, tassiebaz.
Close! Actually the oldest car we operate was built in March of 1945! 3087
@@tassiebaz You might want to visit Germany at some point... we have some great old stuff too, like this subway train from 1901:
ruclips.net/video/-XX-mM-tuI4/видео.html
(the other ones are mostly from the 1970s).
Or, an elevated monorail from 1899 (!!), with a train from 1902:
ruclips.net/video/AVGFVoQvTKE/видео.html (today)
ruclips.net/video/BfsOBw3u5FI/видео.html (1946)
Woltersdorf (near Berlin), Germany: ruclips.net/video/tmVNIpxG2cg/видео.html
(these should be from around 1940 or 1950)
Can I use this in a movie I am making that takes place in the 70's? I will give you full credit
Hi Sam, Thanks for watching and for asking. Yes, there is no problem using this in a movie you are making. Also, thanks for giving me credit. Regards, tassiebaz.
Great footage! I'm working on a documentary and looking for footage of Boston from this time period, would it be possible to connect?
Hi Andrew, Thanks for watching. What do you need for your documentary? Please let me know. Cheers, tassiebaz.
@@tassiebaz Thank you for your reply! I'm working on a documentary on Boston in the 1950s-1970s and am especially interested in streetcar and subway scenes with North Station and the Boston Garden. Would be great to discuss with you!
@@andrewmayz7484 Hi, I am happy to help your effort in any way that I might be able to. Please let me know how I may be able to do this. Cheers, tassiebaz.
Hey do you have more footage of the elevated subway?
Hi cheesedoorknob, Thanks for watching and for your comment. I wish I had more footage to post, but everything I have is already included. Regards, tassiebaz.
Tassiebaz, I am a PCC operator on the Mattapan High Speed Line. Would you mind if I posted this on Facebook? I’ll give you full credit and link to your RUclips page. Some great shots I’ve never seen before of our current cars at Mattapan.
Hi Tim, Thanks for watching and for your comment. Since one of my objectives is sharing these scenes with people of like interest, I would be pleased and flattered if you would post this on Facebook, and thank you for proposing it. I am very interested in older equipment, so was disappointed when a recent visit to Boston was too short to allow me to have another ride on the Mattapan Line. Maybe next time. Thanks again. Regards, tassiebaz.
So cool ... loved the PCC'S running on the viaduct and around North Station. Question.. What outer cities in the US ran PCC'S in sets of 2 and 3 cars !
Hi StrassenbahnFilmGuy, Thanks for watching and for your comment. Places I have visited that operated multiple-unit PCCs include Cleveland (Shaker Heights) and Toronto. Also, technically not PCCs, Philadelphia Suburban (Red Arrow) ran multiple-units with their St. Louis cars. There may have been others, but I personally had not visited them (e.g., Pacific Electric). Regards, tassiebaz.
tassiebaz THANK You... forgotten about Toronto... even rode them with my Grand Dad to the Canadian National Exposition.
Rode ALL Boston except Watertown as a young adult.
Watertown was still running when I was there. Rode the streetcar out and came back by trolleybus.
San Francisco also ran multiple PCC’s through the mountain tunnel. They would couple trolleys from different lines into one to get through the tunnel to downtown.
The REAL mbta!
Hi Anthony, Yeah!!! Authenticity in the good old days. Thanks for watching and for your comment. Stay well. Cheers, tassiebaz.
Cool compilation. Unfortunately, I'm a late millennial who never got to experience the streetcar system. Makes me wonder if we should bring back streetcars in a mixed traffic modality like the GL E branch for some underserved neighborhoods like nubian square, Chelsea, and Watertown. Certainly can't be any worse than the 'silver line'.
Hi a dog, Thanks for watching and for your comment. I'm glad you liked the presentation and appreciate you taking the time to let me know. Sorry you missed the "good old days". I'm all for new streetcar services and many cities have done just that. Boston did have a streetcar line to Watertown which was closed in 1969 and replaced with a bus. I did ride it a few times to Watertown, and then rode the recently abandoned trolleybus line back. The streetcar line ran from Watertown through Newton Corner, Brighton, and Allston to Kenmore Square, then used the Boylston Street subway and Tremont Street subway to reach Park Street station. Stay well. Cheers, tassiebaz.
Not to mention they should revive streetcar service through the old, unused Tremont Street tunnel to Pleasant Street.
@@edwardmiessner6502 Hi, I read where they are thinking of trying to run something through that tunnel. Whether that will ever happen is another question. Cheers, tassiebaz.
The following PCC cars are now rotting away in the Pennsylvania trolley graveyard:
3244 (11:36)
3266 (21:30 and 21:36)
3252 (22:18)
3267 (23:06)
3285 (23:18, later converted to a work car)
Hi Ryans, Thanks for watching and for the information. I did an Internet search and found that as of November 2023, the Windber Trolley Graveyard is no more. All the cars have either been sold to museums, trolley car collectors, or scrapped. Sad that there was a large collection of vintage cars that weren't restored. At least some of the cars, or at least the parts, went to museums. See "pabucketlist.com/peer-behind-the-gates-of-the-windber-trolley-graveyard/. Cheers, tassiebaz.
@@tassiebaz I saw that too, but from what I’ve heard it hasn’t been cleared out yet.
@@RyansColoradoRailProductions Another article (www.tribdem.com/news/windber-trolley-graveyard-nears-end-of-the-line-with-sale-to-scrap-company/article_1b489a94-03ac-11ee-b3e8-db8c9a8d3f83.html) says the owner is 85 years old and moving to Indiana. He may take some of the better cars with him. It also said the PCC running in Kenosha came from there. At least there is some good news. Cheers, tassiebaz.
Yes, his name is Ed Metka. The garage where the best condition cars were kept was also hit by vandals a while back, that had 3266 as well as SEPTA 2103 and 2190. They still look pretty good. @@tassiebaz
@@RyansColoradoRailProductions You would think, in an ideal world, someone would be interested in the cars if they were half-decent. Don't know if San Francisco is interested in more cars, but they would fit in perfectly there. Philadelphia could certainly use more for Route 15, but that's another story. Kenosha probably has enough for what they are running or plan to run. (When I was there, they only needed one.) Boston, El Paso, ???? Hopefully, they won't just continue to rot.
Ah yes. I drove one or two of those vehicles...
Hi Madridme3, Sounds like fun. I hope you have good memories of those times. Thanks for watching and for taking the time to comment. Stay well and all the best for 2022. Cheers, tassiebaz.
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Hi Lola, Thanks for watching. Cheers, tassiebaz.