01100's - Charlestown EL - Boston

[EdM021]

1:57 Look at the livery on that train! White and grey with a black stripe and orange doors. Kind of like London Underground trains except those are red white and blue.

PS for those who don't know, a livery is a paint scheme or design for trains and vehicles.

[nicademastribe]

it was the old boston.

[danthomastherocker1]

for the past two years i took the orange line to sullivan to work on the docks in charlestown. HOLY SHIT! this was different. my mom worked at a clothes store in charlestown in the 70s and i always wondered what the commute looked like from everett. lol wow

[Madness832]

Interesting! Don't believe I've ever seen this movie! Now, I gotta find it!

[mespada4940]

I saw a few old mbta bus that is located at Boston area.

[ooxcfhxoo]

i just met a guy who did a 30 min documentary on the destruction of the washington street el. i watched about 10 min today. i probably wont be able to post it on youtube but i could always ask

[dpjaexp]

Thank you, to the gazillionth power!!! AWESOME!!!!!

[MSTS1]

You're welcome

[BostonUrbEx]

This is awesome.

Also, wow... 2-car trains? Haha, oh man...

[dpjaexp]

@BostonUrbEx: I remember that the motormen used to call two car trains 'deuces' (ie "They're running deuces on Sunday mornings now.")

[MSTS1]

Yes, this was typical until the Haymarket-North Extension opened in '75. They ran 2-car trains during low-volume periods- late nights, weekends.. They didn't even open Everett Station on weekends, when bus lines were sent directly to the old Sullivan Square Elevated station instead.

[TRACKLESS100]

@MSTS1  everett station was open saturdays until 8:00 pm when they short turned at sullivan.

everett was closed all day sunday and major holidays.

[MSTS1]

@TRACKLESS100 - Sounds right. I must be remembering Sunday afternoons.

[cchris874]

Thanks for the memories. Didn't know there was such a movie.

[sonoferin]

Wow-I grew up in Charlestown but am too young to remember the el. City Sq looks totally different now, even compared to when I was a kid, nevermind this clip.

[nicademas7779]

EL TAKE IT BACK BEST RIDE THEN 5- STarS

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[nicademas7779]

holy-------hey i wish you had more on this

[RobertPaniagua]

Actually the 01700s did notenter service until 1987, so it was 01400s back then on the Longfellow bridge

[MSTS1]

Yes, I did mean 01400s; in the State of Mass. colors- blue, white and gold..

[cchris874]

"Actually the 01700s did notenter service until 1987, so it was 01400s back then on the Longfellow bridge "

Could also have been 1500 or 1600s, which debuted in 1969. Much more comfortable back then!

[MSTS1]

And those came with air conditioning.

The 01400s from 1963, the 01100s from '57 on the Orange Line and the 0500s from '51 on the Blue Line, and also all PCCs didn't have AC. That was a big change back then. I also remember riding the SOAC cars on the Red Line in '74. They seemed so modern then; now they are, all, relics..

[cchris874]

"SOAC cars"

What does that stand for?

1100s - it seems to me those could have been kept much longer. They always seemed very reliable, and they had cushioned seats, unlike the bluebirds. I think they disposed of them by what, 1981/82?

[MSTS1]

SOAC was "State Of the Art Car", and they toured the country in the early-mid 70's. They were in Boston on the Red Line in 1974. My brothers and me rode on those trains during the demo weekend. Go to Google > Images and just type in SOAC. You'll find pictures.

Yeah, the 01100s only ran 24 years. I shot a couple slides of them in the summer of '81 in the Wellington Yard; retired, "X"s sprayed on the front windows, waiting to be scrapped.

[SFICA9]

The SOAC cars are on static display at the Seashore Trolley Museum.

[s7o0a0p]

There were also the early 500s on the Blue Line from 1923...they ran until 1980!

[CJaguar265]

thanks for remembering dude and uploading again

[MSTS1]

No problem..