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From Boston to the Berkshires Pictorial Review of Electric Transportation in Mas
From Boston to the Berkshires Pictorial Review of Electric Transportation in Mass
By Stephen P. Carlson with Thomas W. Harding
Soft Cover
Copyright 1990 - First Edition
160 pages
BSRA Bulletin #21
Pictorial Review of Electric Transportation in Massachusetts
CONTENTS
Preface5
Introduction-The Street Railway in Massachusetts7
Boston-ln, Over & Under the Hub11
From Newport to Nashua-The Bay State/Eastern Mass. System43
A Color Portfolio66
New Haven Owned-Worcester, Springfield & Berkshire73
Union Street Railway-Trolleys in New Bedford93
Land of the Minute Men-The Middlesex & Boston Street Railway103
Serving the Merrimack Valley-The Massachusetts Northeastern System111
Northern Mass. & the Connecticut Valley-The Massachusetts Consolidated Railways117
Across the Commonwealth-The Smaller Trolley Systems123
Hoosac Tunnel, Nantasket Beach & the Narrow Gauge-Electrified Operations of Steam Railroads147
Freight Also Rode the Trolley-Non-Passenger Service in Massachusetts153
Bibliography 159
THIS VOLUME presents a pictorial review of street railway and other electric transit operations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is not intended as a history of such properties beyond the brief introductory sketches and the data presented in the captions. A vast wealth of such information has appeared in print, and the reader is referred to the items listed in the bibliography. One will not find rosters here, nor, except for a few contemporary items, are system maps included.
The focus here is on passenger operations, although a brief chapter covers trolley freight and express service. Outside of some converted passenger cars, non-revenue equipment is absent. The variety of such rolling stock is so great that it is deserving of a book of its own. Since this is a work on electric transit, trackless trolleys and the electrified operations of steam railroads are covered.
The allotment of space is roughly proportional to the relative sire and importance of the property. No hard-and-fast formula ssas used, however; the number and quality of the available pictures was the determinant. Emphasis is placed on the period from 1920 until abandoment. Not only is there more material for that era, it is also within the memory of many readers.
This book is an outgrowth of a joint project by the authors to produce a pictorial history of public transportation in Worcester. In assembling data for that work, it became apparent that there has been no treatment of street railways on a statewide basis since Professor Edward S. Mason's economic history in 1932. This effort is an attempt to partially fill that gap.
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