Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway
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The Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway (Eastern Mass) was a streetcar and later bus company in eastern Massachusetts, serving most suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. Many of its former routes are now run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
[edit] BERy connection points
The Eastern Mass connected to the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) system at many points; through service continued along BERy trackage at some.
- Neponset
- Milton Lower Mills
- Mattapan
- Forest Hills - the Hyde Park division was sold to the BERy ca. 1930, unifying routes across Forest Hills but creating other connection points.
- Arlington Heights
- West Medford
- Middlesex Fells
- Malden Center
- Charlestown
- Chelsea - the Chelsea division was sold to the BERy in 1936, unifying routes across Charlestown and Chelsea but creating other connection points.
- Suffolk Downs
- Fields Corner
[edit] Preserved cars
Former Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway car 4387, built in 1918 by the Laconia Car Company, is preserved in operating condition at the Seashore Trolley Museum, in Kennebunkport, Maine.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Young, Andrew D. (1997). Veteran & Vintage Transit, p. 45. St. Louis: Archway Publishing. ISBN 0-9647279-2-7.
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