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As the first and largest Electric Railway Museum in the world, guests learn about and gain a new appreciation for the role public transportation has played throughout history. 0210 is the only car in the collection that shows the character of the original Boston Elevated Railway fleet, is the closest contemporary of the Boston’s Tower C and Northampton Station, and remains one of the oldest all-steel passenger railway cars in the world.Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, it’s worth the trip! This past weekend on a weekend trip to the beach, we decided to spend a cloudy, mildly rainy morning at the Trolley 0210 is the oldest surviving Boston elevated car.
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The interior, however, remains without seats. 0210 to the dark green paint scheme the car had when in BERy passenger service. 0210 which remained in quite good condition at Seashore.
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Indoor storage while at Boston contributed to the overall preservation of No. Seashore intended to use these Boston elevated cars in conjunction with the former Northampton Station which Seashore brought from Boston in 1989. 0210 in a train with BERy class 10 elevated cars Nos. 0210 as part of possible historic vehicle collection but decided to offer it to Seashore in 1994. 0210 was the last railroad roof rapid transit car to survive in Boston. In 1971, the MBTA painted the car in its yellow work equipment paint scheme. 0210 survived corporate reorganizations as the Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1947 and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in 1964. 0210 had a wood roof, it rated indoor storage at Sullivan, Forest Hills and later Wellington carhouses. 0210 soldiered on, outliving the elevated structure itself. This conversion included removing all the seats. BERy converted the remaining two cars, Nos. 3 cars were surplus, and all but two of the cars were scrapped in 1939. With the Atlantic Avenue Elevated closed, the No. 3 and 4 cars were all in storage by 1933, and by May 1, 1935, the No. The oldest steel cars didn’t last much longer, as ridership losses reduced the car requirements. 9 and 10 cars were added and the remaining wood cars retired. 8 cars were added, and about 50 wooden cars retired. Replacement of the wood cars finally started in 1921 when 65 No.
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For over two decades the number 3s operated from Everett to Forest Hills on both the Atlantic Avenue Elevated and the Main Line Elevated.īERy acquired more steel elevated cars in four additional series between 19, bringing the roster to 170 wood cars and 157 steel cars. Boston’s cars were also more modernly equipped, both with pneumatically operated doors and a fully automatic motor control. (In Boston, rapid transit car numbers all started with zero to distinguish them from surface streetcars.) Comparing Boston’s new steel cars with those of New York, although both of the car series shared a canvas on wood roof design, Boston’s steel design was different from that of the New York cars in that Pressed Steel relied on a very strong below floor frame with a lightly built passenger compartment above it compared to the IRT design of the entire sides, from bottom sill to window sill, acting as girders that bore the weight. Both because of upcoming elevated service expansion and the fact that the steel cars were safer than wooden cars in tunnels, though Boston had not suffered any underground disasters, BERy ordered its own first set of steel cars from the Pressed Steel Car Company of Pittsburgh, PA. One of these initial New York all-steel cars, Interborough Rapid Transit No. The year 1904 was also the year that saw the introduction of the first all-steel passenger cars with the opening of the New York City subway. All of Boston’s wooden elevated fleet were retired and scrapped by the late 1920s, so none survive. The railway added another 24 wooden cars of a different design with closed ends – labeled as number 2 cars – in 1904. The Main Line opened with an initial fleet of 100 wooden railroad roof open platform gate cars that had manually operated center doors, with 50 more cars being added in 1903. The Main Line initially used the Tremont Street subway through downtown Boston and elevated structures outside of downtown. Boston Elevated Railway’s Main Line Elevated (approximating the route of today’s Orange Line of the MBTA) opened in 1901 along with the Atlantic Avenue Elevated later in 1901. Boston did not open its first elevated line until 1901. The nation’s first subway, Boston’s Tremont Street subway, opened in 1897 and operated with surface streetcars.