My knowledge of trolley car operations is virtually zero, but back in January 2002 I was driving home from Boston (I lived in Rhode Island) and came across the quaint Mattapan line on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The wire car was at rest on a stub track in the middle of a small line that looped around the yard. The 2.6-mile line operates between Mattapan, where the photo was snapped, and Ashmont, where riders change for the 11-mile Red Line. Reader Mark Sylvester tells me this car "is a double-ended PCC car from Dallas. The MTA (precursor to the MBTA) bought eight of them to replace aging conventional cars in shuttle service where the car needed to change directions at the end of a line." The cars were originally orange, he added.

Photographed by Leo King, January 8, 2002.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, May 15, 2004.
Railroad: MBTA.

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