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Boston Trolleys in Color Volume 2 South Side by William Volkmer Morning Sun Bks
Boston Trolleys in Color Volume 2 South Side by William D. Volkmer
Boston Trolleys in Color Volume2
The South Side
William D. Volkmer
Hard cover dust jacket
Morning Sun Book
128 pages
Copyright 2004
Contents
SOUTH BOSTON - CITY POINT 6
TREMONT STREET LENOX LOOP14
ARBORWAY - HUNTINGTON AVENUE 16
MATTAPAN HIGH SPEED LINE 44
DORCHESTER 54
RIVERSIDE LINE 58
BEACON STREET NORTH STATION VIA SUBWAY 82
BOSTON WORK CARS 94
BOSTON CARS IN MUSEUMS 100
OPERATIONS OUTSIDE OF BOSTON
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS STREET RAILWAY - QUINCY 102
UNION STREET RAILWAY NEW BEDFORD 104
WORCESTER STREET RAILWAY WORCESTER 108
SPRINGFIELD TERMINAL RAILWAY
SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT CHARLESTOWN, NEW HAMPSHIRE 114
UNITED ELECTRIC RAILWAYS PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 118
CONNECTICUT COMPANY, NEW HAVEN, CT 124
LAWSON HILL, Color Traction Photographer 128
In Volume I of Boston Trolleys in Color, we attempted to trace the metamorphosis of the Boston public transportation system from the streetcar era as it existed around 1940 through the light rail era as it began in the late 1970s. This story centered around the early 1940s conversion from streetcar dominance to trackless trolley dominance on Boston's North Side. Throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s, streetcars were "out," and trackless trolleys were "in." As the decade of the 1960s came into play the trackless trolleys gave way to the diesel bus as the predominate mode. The 1960s gave birth to the age of publicly owned transit systems across the nation and the trend went away from bus transportation and towards the expansion of the rapid transit systems, both existing and new-start cities. Boston was no exception as major construction projects were undertaken on all of Boston's rapid transit lines.
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