“Wartime” PCCs on the Park Street - Watertown line, starting with the short-turn loop at Oak Square, Brighton:
Correction, Oak Square is in Allston, not Brighton. Should have remembered, since the Oak Square Loop was the north terminal of the Allston - Dudley streetcar line, that even before WWII, Boston Elevated converted to bus, with the thought of eventually converting all streetcar lines that did not have extensive PRW and/or ran into the Subway. WWII stopped the program, and only after the MTA, now MBTA, took over that it reumed, also converting with lines the Elevated had planned to retain.
A rare viusit of asn all-electric to Watertown bC.H., Spring, 1950 fan trip.
On Commonwealth Avenue, at the west switch to the Braves Field Loop, looking west toward “Packard’s Corner:”
A very typical ruuf-fan-added “waerime” PCC just overhauled at Everett Shops, Sept. 2949:
Caption on pewvious post corrected.
And I’m editing this post to showe some of the Boston Subway’s portals:
Between Haymarket Square and North Station
Treemont Street and Broadway:
Huntington Avenue, near Northeastern University:
Commonweaklth Avenue at Blanton Street
(More work required on these two, apologies)
Photos added to previous posting.
I’m guessing that in the last post with photos, by Northwestern University you actually meant Northeastern University?
I would think so. The closest that any PCC cars got to Northwestern University was on CTA’s Evanston Line, now known as the Purple Line.
PCC streetcars got to Clark and Howard, on the Chicago/Evanston line, about 2 miles from Northwestern U.
You are all correct. I meant Northeastern and haver corrected the posting. Truth is, in the some total of 19-20 years spent in the Boston-Cambrtidge area, I never once was inside Northeastern U. Inside Symphony Hall, not far away, maybe 1000 times. But I did hear excellant organ recitals on the very beautiful Aeolian Skinner organ at Northwestern (Alice Millard Chapel?). The firm that I worked for 1957-1971, including three years at the Downerrs Grove Office, had been the acoustical advisors, although I was not directly involved.
Thanks for the important correction.
Other photo and information contributions, comments, and questions requested.
An attempt in improvement of the two Commonweakth Avenue photos:
Great picture.
The Cities Service sign in the background is in Kenmore Square, close to Fenway Park. The famous CITGO sign replaced it in 1965.
Yikes. I remember when it changed!
(Wow. That’s a Crosley station wagon!)
Thanks!
Two at the Broadway and Tremont Subway Portal (the 2wnd opened, in 1897, now not used), both with the standee-weindioowe all]-electrics. City Point is normal, bout Treemont St. to Eggleston was normally (in1951 Loop jmay have diverted a City Point car to fill-in a gap for Treemont Street. 3001-3025 were based at the Arborway, the standee-window at City Point.
Dave,
Do you happen to have any interior pictures of Egleston Station from the '50s? I spent quite a bit of time going through that station, but can hardly remember what it looked like.
Come to think of it, Dudley would be of interest as well.
Thanks. Keep those great pics coming. They are greatly appreciated.
Pauley
I recommend you contact the Boston Street Railway Associationm www.bsra.org. Do you have their Streetcar Lines of the Hub and Boston’s MTA? (Two books)
Thanks, Dave.
No, I do not have those books. I’ll check them out.
P
Both books ordered. Thanks again, Dave.
1949-1950 Winter Sunday single-car operrtation on Beacon Street:
