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These iPhone pictures are recently taken: what and where are they?

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Boston

San Francisco, CA

Jim

First photo is Yawkey as seen under construction in this out of date Google satellite photo -

https://goo.gl/maps/iL4Pk

Second photo is at Lowell, MA -

http://www.trolleymuseum.org/lowell/

Whereizit's are hard to do in the age of the Goog ....

Yes indeed photo #1 is the MBTA's new Yawkey station serving Fenway Park / Kenmore Sq / BU area. I guess being squeezed against the MassPike Extension accounts for the somewhat strange platform arrangement.

Photo #2 is in Lowell but it's several blocks away from the National Trolley Museum site. Rather this is the car barn that is situated at the end of an old mill that currently houses the Boot Cotton Mills Museum. The attached Google Maps link to an aerial photo shows a trolley sitting on the curved bridge over the pleasantly titled "Merrimack Wasteway". The bridge connects the building to the street trackage.

https://goo.gl/maps/bdy0w

Another item of interest visited by the Lowell NP trolley is B&M RR Historical Society's preserved Boston and Maine 0-6-0 switcher:

http://www.bmrrhs.org/overview



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/21/14 02:15 by JPB.

Picture #2. Roll-up door and trolley wire. How does that work?