Arborway with Type 5 and first trolley buses that were used on the first southern district streetcar line to be converted to them,Charles River to Forest Hills Sta and Arborway.

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Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) / Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) / Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)

Arborway with Type 5 and first trolley buses that were used on the first southern district streetcar line to be converted to them,Charles River to Forest Hills Sta and Arborway. This was also the first line with a PCC car (3001), the so-called Queen Mary. This was Boston's only St.Louis Car Co. car, the rest being Pullman Standard products from the Worcester MA. These tracklesses were unique in having a left hand door and were later used in Cambridge thru Harvard Sq subway station to use the left side platforms on buses going south to Waverly and Watertown.

Courtesy the Bill Volkmer collection

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