wicked wrote:The 77 used to run pick-up only from Harvard to at least the North Cambridge carhouse, if not the Arlington line. And I think the 71/73 and 77A are still through-routed, no?
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:wicked wrote:The 77 used to run pick-up only from Harvard to at least the North Cambridge carhouse, if not the Arlington line. And I think the 71/73 and 77A are still through-routed, no?
The 77A was officially abolished a few years ago, but the other lines run thru to the carhouse much more often and backfill that loss. So it still exists in 'stealth'.
wicked wrote:The 77 used to run pick-up only from Harvard to at least the North Cambridge carhouse, if not the Arlington line.
MBTA3247 wrote:The TT's only operate between Harvard and North Cambridge during shift changes. These pull-ins/pull-outs are still signed 77A.
Aerie wrote:When I was a little kid (1950s), street cars were still running on Mass. Ave to Harvard station. The local street cars between North Cambridge and Harvard were elderly Type (I think) trolley cars, but the Arlington Heights Limited streetcars were the (then) relatively new PCC cars. We lived near Davis Square in Somerville, and I frequently went to Harvard Square with my mom, and I used to complain that we had to ride on the old and bumpy trolley cars while the nice new PCC cars passed us by without stopping. I guess the reasoning for not allowing local traffic on the PCCs was so that the people riding a long way to Arlington Heights could get a seat, and not have all the local riders grabbing them. There were only 2 tracks, so the PCCs could not pass the older cars and run truly express. I think streetcar service was ended because the PCC cars were needed for the Riverside line.
F-line to Dudley via Park wrote:Aerie wrote:When I was a little kid (1950s), street cars were still running on Mass. Ave to Harvard station. The local street cars between North Cambridge and Harvard were elderly Type (I think) trolley cars, but the Arlington Heights Limited streetcars were the (then) relatively new PCC cars. We lived near Davis Square in Somerville, and I frequently went to Harvard Square with my mom, and I used to complain that we had to ride on the old and bumpy trolley cars while the nice new PCC cars passed us by without stopping. I guess the reasoning for not allowing local traffic on the PCCs was so that the people riding a long way to Arlington Heights could get a seat, and not have all the local riders grabbing them. There were only 2 tracks, so the PCCs could not pass the older cars and run truly express. I think streetcar service was ended because the PCC cars were needed for the Riverside line.
Riverside was the excuse (it was the excuse for bustituting everything), but killing the North Cambridge lines also allowed final retirement of the Type 5's. The last of them were purged in 1958-59. They did bring in those 25 ex-Dallas PCC's the same year, but retiring the 5's was still a net reduction to the overall fleet.
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