Globe: 100th Anniversary of Summer St. Trolley Disaster

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The Globe ran an extensive special in today's Sunday paper on the approaching centennial anniversary of the Nov. 7, 1916 BERy streetcar accident in which a full City Point streetcar en route to South Station plunged off the open Summer St. drawbridge, killing 46. Extremely well-done spread with lots of pictures and bios of the victims, as well as an animated re-creation of how the accident happened.

I read it last night. It was very well done. I then went an looked up more on the history of 393. As the story points out, it was converted t a wrecker in 1920.

After that, does anyone else know what happened to 393? I am guessing it was eventually scraped. Was it renumbered when it was a wrecker?

Adams_Umass_Boston wrote:After that, does anyone else know what happened to 393? I am guessing it was eventually scraped. Was it renumbered when it was a wrecker?

As far as my references "Street Cars of Boston Volume 1 by O.R. Cummings" it remained as 393 throughout it's life after being converted to a wrecker in 1920. There appears to be no info on when it was scrapped.

The late 3rdrail, Paul Joyce, had a thread on the disaster "The worst trolley disaster in the United States" (http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.ph ... 02#p865140).

JoeD

The writer is the son of a friend of mine. Great kid growing up and he turned into a pretty darn good writer.

A sister car to 393, restored 396 is at Seashore Trolley Museum.

I walked down to the bridge this evening after work. I was a little curious to see if any other railfans might have had the same idea, but apparently not. Just cars, buses, trucks, cyclists, and pedestrians hurrying by, all likely unaware of what unfolded beneath their feet all those years ago. And so it goes...

BPD sent two officers to throw 46 roses into the channel - very classy of them to do so. Myself and several others - separately - made our way to the wreck site at 5:25.