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Nostalgia & History > South of Boston in ‘82Date: 12/01/19 04:11 South of Boston in ‘82 Author: GPutz A w/b MBTA train was led by F40PH #1016, Readville, Boston, Massachusetts, 8/7/82. There’s more at:
https://gjptrains.wordpress.com/category/home/ Gerry Date: 12/01/19 05:37 Re: South of Boston in ‘82 Author: tomcough Taken just east of Readville Station on the Dorchester Branch, now called the Fairmont Line. Two generations of Pullman coaches - an ex-New Haven 1948 Worcester built streamline coach followed by 1978 Chicago built commuter coaches.
I was a regular commuter on this line in '82. Tom Coughlin Stow, MA Date: 12/01/19 06:31 Re: South of Boston in ‘82 Author: JPB In the early '80s, the Dorcester Branch (originally the Midland RR way back when) was actually the MBTA / Amtrak main line as the Southwest Corridor construction was underway that put the ex-New Haven main line to Back Bay and Orange Line between Back Bay and Forest Hills (eliminating its elevated line on Washington St) in a trench that was covered. Work started on the Dorchester Branch upgrade in December 1977 (42 years ago !). And work on the re-built SW Corridor was finished in 1987.
SW Corridoar Development Plan from 1979: http://www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/00048719-a01a-49eb-b1be-f35521024b02/ A bit OT but here are some photos of the elevated Orange Line: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2012/10/17/11-cool-photos-original-orange-line/ Date: 12/01/19 14:53 Re: South of Boston in ‘82 Author: RuleG I enjoyed viewing your photos of stations and signals.
Thanks for sharing. Date: 12/02/19 11:14 Re: South of Boston in ‘82 Author: bluesboyst JPB Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > In the early '80s, the Dorcester Branch > (originally the Midland RR way back when) was > actually the MBTA / Amtrak main line as the > Southwest Corridor construction was underway that > put the ex-New Haven main line to Back Bay and > Orange Line between Back Bay and Forest Hills > (eliminating its elevated line on Washington St) > in a trench that was covered. Work started on the > Dorchester Branch upgrade in December 1977 (42 > years ago !). And work on the re-built SW Corridor > was finished in 1987. > > SW Corridoar Development Plan from > 1979: http://www.bostonplans.org/getattachment/00 > 048719-a01a-49eb-b1be-f35521024b02/ > A bit OT but here are some photos of the elevated > Orange > Line: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2012/10 > /17/11-cool-photos-original-orange-line/ Can't believe it has been 40 years...Yikes. I went to Cincy from Boston in Oct. 1979 still went on the regulary routing through Forest Hills and Roslindale. On the way back 2 weeks later the re-routing had begun thus my first ride on the Fairmount Branch. |