MBTA Commuters Moving About at North Station Boston in 1988
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Yeah....the trains basically still look the same. They still use double deckers though, i love those soo much.
Nice video, great footage!
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Ah back, at the old Gahden and North Station was crappy, at least that's what my dad told me, I wasn't alive at this time.
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I miss those old mbta locomotives!
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@KatoPowered all on MNRR
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oh okay. Why couldn't they use HEP from the engine? I guess RDCs probably werent desinged to be pulled by engines.
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lol
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holy shit I don't even rember posting dat comment.
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I was 1995 to
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i was not born !!!!!!!!!
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Awesome! Some of those F40's must of been brand new back then
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Wow those RDCs were on their last legs. You can see they are running but need the F10 to move haha.
gp40mc 2 years ago
They kept one motor for heat and AC.
PKingman 2 years ago
im pretty sure the purple line started up in 96
gtoinwq 4 years ago
There are a bunch of Purple Lines. Most of them served as commuter lines over the last hundred or more years. The Lowell line is one of the oldest rail lines in America. The Framingham route is also ancient. The Middleboro line is part of the old route to Cape Cod. Trains went all the way to PTown once. I think that the "Purple" MBTA designation started sometime in the late 1970s or early 80s. Not sure exactly when. Maybe with the Mike Dukakis administration.
PKingman 4 years ago