MBTA, Boston,Green Line, 1976

A lot of Arborway, Lechmere, some Riverside. One all too brief clip of North Station surface loop. Sorry about the jerkiness caused by damaged sprockets. Copyrighted material. If you use my movie for ANY purpose give proper credit

[@yamstar1johnson991]

As a young HS graduate in 1972 I would ride the trolley from Arborway to Prudential at 5:30 in the morning to my job in the mailroom of Prudential Insurance. In winter those cars were cold and equally hot in the summer. Thanks for the great memories

[@Pauley_in_GP]

You've to be a real geek to enjoy watching old movies of trolley cars. Well, I am and I do. I spent many hours on the MTA's PCC cars (mostly Ashmont-Mattapan, Cleveland Circle/Beacon Street) until the early 70s when I moved away. But I developed into a rail fan and several Boston PCC cars appear on my model railroad layouts. Thanks for the memories.

[@FrenchmansFlats51]

missing is the sound of those doors opening and closing, groan and squeaks. and the smell of ancient trolley cars going down commonwealth ave., where i grew up

[@brianmorrison7542]

I remember Lechmere Sales right next door

[@EdwardM-t8p]

3:50 There was a wooden trestle for the tunnel portal up ramp back then! Which means originally there were plans to extend the subway, perhaps out to Packard's Corner.

[@merccadoosis8847]

so nice - thanx for sharing

[@nafisali2434]

3415 3418 3420 3421 Entered Passenger trip on The D Line on December 30, 1976. 3485 3499 Entered Last Passenger trip on The D Line on March 16, 2007 PCC's discontinued Passenger Trips by 1985. After the E line got cut from Forest Hills all the way to Northeastern University. Following year Kinki Sharyo Type 7's arrived and made Passenger trips on Summer of 1986. The Breda Type 8's made a Passenger trip on May, 1999. Although due to axle problems. They were taken out of service. By 2007 a sufficient amount of Type 8 were on active rail.

[@rainbowrailroadcrossing7798]

Weren’t the Boeing LRV’s the fastest Green line trains?

[@pudgyv5223]

They were.

[@jimzumbababa6608]

In their later years the speed governors no longer worked on many of them. I once had a train up to 65mph!

[@davidroache4699]

@@jimzumbababa6608 Those Boeing LRV Streetcars had the quickest, effortless, acceleration, take-off's. The stablest high speed cornering. The most polished, velvety smooth ride. The swiftest. securest, safest "through out the anchor" braking. The quietest, noise-less, peaceful sounding travelling train through the subway, bar none.The overall comfort level was impeccable. And for flat out, full steam ahead, when heading inbound, with a single Boeing, non M.U., non governed streetcar, riding the rails east between Newton Corner and the Chestnut Hill stop, with down hill gravity helping out. And lastly, when operated by a young, adventurous, lead foot motorman, he could easily clock in pushing 70 M.P.H.! Sadly, the new cars are crawling along at less then 20 MPH and are jumping off the tracks while traveling straight, almost about every other week lately.

[@jimzumbababa6608]

@@davidroache4699 😂

[@faurl35h]

Why was there a motorman in the second car? At 7:00-7:14 in the second car 3102 a motorman is reading a newspaper, and of course from the accident at 9:40

[@pudgyv5223]

Actually that is a conductor in the second and third cars. He/she collected fares and opened/closed the doors.

[@chickenwing111]

They should have kept the streetcar and gotten rid of the autos

[@EdwardM-t8p]

There used to be 450 miles of streetcars in and around Boston and they should have kept every mile!