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Special: Shoreline Trolley Museum

Welcome back… I guess. Neither of us were really able to write for a while, and nor were we inspired. For now, here’s a report on the Shoreline Trolley Museum in East Haven Connecticut, which I visited on July 16th of this year. I am aware that there’s not much of “this year” left, and […]

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Misc Photography

Boston Trolleybuses: Part 2 – BSRA Farewell Fantrip

As you know by now, the MBTA’s long running trackless trolleys are being retired at the end of service on March 12th. The Boston Street Railway Association, essentially Boston’s top railfan organization, organized a Farewell to the Trackless Trolleys fantrip on February 19th, and I attended, so now Meirk wants me to give a retelling […]

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Misc Photography

Boston Trolleybuses: Part 1 – Photographic Documentation

Since the trolleybus system of Boston is shutting down today, we wanted to pay it homage in the form of two articles, this one containing a boatload of pictures mostly taken by me, mostly as I walked the system on February 23rd, 2022. The pictures will be provided as we walked (chronologically), and not exactly […]

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Misc: Petition to Save Trolleybuses in Boston

I apologise for the quick and informal, I would like to forward this petition about saving the trolleybuses in Boston, the MBTA has planned to close the system within the coming months, and have only recently announced that it will be in March. From what I know the general opinion about this closure has been […]

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Trips

Trip: Aaron dragged me on GATRA

So, my friend Aaron, aka aquaticpotato3677, happens to be a bus nerd, specifically the kind of person who likes exotic services. So, on the 12th of August, he decided to drag me to spend a day on GATRA, a rural bus operator on southern Massachusetts. The goal: ride every one of GATRA’s “Go” services, which […]

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Special: Cannon Mountain Aerial Tramway

Prologue Why? What’s wrong with you? Why are you reviewing a cable car?!?!? In the “mission statement”, I said that I’ll review everything that’s mechanically or linguistically a tram, and yes, that includes aerial trams, as those are trams for some reason. So, the next time you build a cable car (or any kind of […]

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Boston Green Line: This Time, an Actual System

Prologue The previous post was about Boston’s quirky little isolated light rail line, the Mattapan Line, so naturally the next post will cover the real light rail system of Boston, the Green Line. The Green Line has the highest ridership per mile of any light rail system in the country, and was also the first […]

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Ashmont Mattapan High Speed Line: Quirky yet Convenient

Prologue Why on earth did you choose a quirky line in southern Boston as your first review!? Well, I don’t know actually, maybe because I’m currently in Boston… Maybe because I like PCCs… But from a practical standpoint it’s a short line that can be quickly described and serves as a template for myself, and […]