"You mighty pleased with yourself boy. I like you boy." *Take this pie in your face wit that "boy" shit!*

Very interesting history. Thank you ♥♥

Mbta bus 34 Dedham mall-forest hills station

This is amazing. I had a dentist in that same place from which he took this video. I believe Mr. Palmer‘s been dead for 20 years now, but his record keeping goes on for posterior for the rest of us. I didn’t even know that this part of Cambridge had a tram system through it especially through Pearl Street going through Watertown because that’s where I would take the bus but it makes sense because I remember as a kid how bad that Pearl Street was in terms of upkeep in the 70s and early 80s and I do remember some visible tracks. It’s too bad they ripped up the old tracks in that area several years ago when they had to do that con reconstruction work

I never saw these trolly cars, but I am old enough to have been on the buses that ran on these cables from Watertown square.

Mbta bus 29 mattapan station Jackson square station

Mbta bus 28 mattapan station ruggles station

Technically all the bus routes are the old trolley routes. Everything was nice and clean on the street.

Mbta bus 1 Harvard square Nubian station

As a matter of fact, this definitely brings back a lot of fond memories of the T's older trolleys (i.e. Mattapan RTE to my fun Curry COLL Alumni events) & busses (i.e. Green line shuttles at Riverside in Fall '93, respectively). Anyway, please keep up the great work coming up w/ some more of these fun throwback-style videos. Beth

Mbta crosstown 2 ct2 Sullivan square ruggles station

Mbta crosstown 1 ct1 central square b.u medical center

Foolist they shouds have kept the trollys and the elavated, todays bus lanes and bike lanes are a joke !

Mr. Cooper thinks he's not like the rest 🤔

When the type 8s were brand new. This had to be in 1999 because the first of these cars arrived on MBTA property in that year. But in late 2007, the T contracted with Breda to deliver another 10 cars (3885-3894) and they had them put into service by December 2008. This brought the total number to 95 production cars and five spare shells stored at Orient Heights to possibly repair wreck rebuilds in the future. December 1, 2021: This means the first of these cars are 22 years old. Car 3869 was delivered in October 2004 and accepted in April 2005. 3867 was delivered in July 2003 and accepted in December 2003. On 12/31/03, the T announced that Breda had delivered only 30 cars of their 100-car order and it was more than 8.5 years after the formal NTP was issued on May 12, 1995. The last Type 8 car accepted before 2003 ended was 3867. A year later, however, only 46 cars were on MBTA premises and officials threatened or were forced to temporarily terminate their US$225 million deal with Breda to furnish 100 wheelchair accessible, low-floor No. 8 Green Line cars and their failed attempt to usher the Green Line into a new-state of user-friendly service and retire the aging and troublesome USSLRVs. They also threaded to cancel payments for the cars still to be delivered since it was more than 9.5 years after the NTP was issued. Brand-new type 8 car 3810 at government center, circa January 2000.

I miss the old Government Center So Much.

PCC's still running 20 years later 2024!

The actor who played Mr Cooper did a phenomenal job

9:14 Main Street at Park Street

Thank you Foster for recording this history of Boston’s trolleys. Beautiful color films.

That was a deft move, offsetting the trolley line from Seaver Street alongside Franklin Park. Now instead of having the trolleys run in the street or unprotected median on Columbus and Blue Hill Avenues the city should have built a protected median reservation instead. Maybe then we would have Green Line trolleys from Park Street to Mattapan instead of those Silver Line busses!

Hi Foster and MBTA Dog, thanks for the video and the wonderful catchy music! Interesting route between Dudley Square and Jamaica Plain. I didn't know it was known as simply Jamaica back then. Where was the Jamaica Loop? Was it the same loop as today's Heath Street Loop? Or was it at the Arborway terminus of the Green Line E Branch? Thanks a million 😊

I wish I could live at a time where everything hadn't yet been sacrificed for the comfort and convenience of motorists but without the bigotries and prejudices that everyone took for granted. To board a mint condition PCC trolley after a day at the beach at City Point and ride it as it trundles toward Dudley Square station. 😊

Thanks for sharing. Beautiful color footage.

6:20, 6:33, 6:35, 8:58 I recognize the red brick two story commercial building that now sits in front of the Quincy Center T-station and bus loop! 😊

0:25 Arlington Center used to be known as Arlington Centre!

Fantabulous video, I love it! 😻

4:19 Watertown Street at Broadway Street

We would still have this line today had the Riverside Branch been planned properly with more trolleys procured to operate it, even if second hand from other transit agencies/companies.

I don't remember Cummins Highway as that curvy; I thought it was mostly straight. But the Forest Hills and Hyde Park areas would be so much nicer had the MTA\MBTA kept the streetcar trolleys. When given a choice between a bus and a trolley, give me the trolley every time!

I was disgusted when I saw the clip where the MTA replaced the trolleys with diesel busses! 😠😡👿🤬 And then to be treated to the beautiful 😍 winter scene of Roosevelt Circle and the Fellsway West parkway before it was absolutely OBLITERATED for Route 93! 😠😡👿🤬 I used to work as an engineer for the Mass. Highway Department 1985-1999 so I know just how ugly the area is today! I think it was a mistake to bring the highways into the city; ideally they should have terminated at Route 128 which then should have been developed as a quadruple freeway like the 401 expressway in Toronto Ontario. Getting into the city would then be handled by improved regional rail and improved and expanded rapid transit.

The MTA missed an opportunity to run a subway branch over to Chelsea when it opened the East Boston Subway connector to and extension on the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad. Not extending that into Lynn was another lost opportunity. ☹️😞 And I wish the streetcar trolleys could have remained. 😢 People hate ugly, bouncy, jittery, smelly busses.

Greater Boston would be so much nicer had they _kept the trolleys!_ Trackless trolleys and busses are a poor substitute.

Love this so much!❤️

Great video!

Does anyone know what years these are from?

I recognize all of it. The route still pretty much looks like that.

El camino de varias décadas para eliminar la segregación escolar. El 12 de septiembre de 1974, la policía se situó fuera de las escuelas de Boston mientras los estudiantes negros y blancos eran transportados en autobús por primera vez, de un barrio a otro, cumpliendo con la orden de un tribunal federal de eliminar la segregación. El transporte escolar entre los barrios fue recibido con una violencia estremecedora: enojados manifestantes blancos les arrojaron piedras a los autobuses que transportaban estudiantes negros y les lanzaron epítetos raciales a los alumnos al entrar a sus nuevas escuelas. El caos y los disturbios raciales aumentarían y continuarían durante años. Utilizando relatos de testigos, entrevistas grabadas e imágenes de las noticias no vistas hacía décadas, The Busing Battleground revela en detalle el esfuerzo volátil por terminar con la segregación escolar y la larga lucha por conseguir equidad educativa que precedió a esta crisis. También ilustra cómo se libraron, tanto en el Norte como en el Sur, las batallas por los derechos civiles y examina esta saga desde la dimensión de clase; explorando cómo los barrios a los que más afectó la orden judicial fueron los más pobres de la ciudad.

Great video. Now it’s a dump filled with section 8 people who don’t want to contribute

Those trolleys were flying! At first I thought maybe the film had been sped up, but the people walked at a normal pace.

I really wish this was still the status quo... I really hate driving, i'm stressed out all the time and I'd gladly would love to live in a time or area where these things were everywhere.

So sad. GM, Ford, Chrysler and Goodyear paid to rip out those trolleys and tracks. The company’s were determined to get people to drive cars.

The 'A' line rails were in place until the late 1990s, I believe. They made the road very dangerous with lots of pot holes and the rail sticking up high in various places. They were also slippery when wet and about the same spread as car wheels, so people would slide on them and crash into each other.

3:02 the engine sounds great going fast

4:49 is does still exist, the track are still there under potholes

Very weird to see a streetcar in front of St Anthonys Cathedral.

You could keep your Dixie...

What year was this

1:47 NYC R142A Subway Car

In case anyone is interested, the first piece of music they're playing is what Stevie Wayne (Adrienne Barbeau) plays in her radio station in a scene from The Fog. I thought it sounded familiar.