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The Founding of the BSRA

Edited by David F. Harling
(Originally published in Rollsign, March/April 2009 Issue)
 

Introduction

As one of the largest organizations of its kind, the Boston Street Railway Association has provided its members—who amount to nearly 900 persons in 2009—with quality publications, top-notch entertainment programs, and fascinating fan trips, and has done so for fifty years. The Association wasn't always a multi-faceted operation, however. In its earliest days, a group of ten young transit enthusiasts in the Boston area formed the BSRA with a relatively simple goal of preserving a streetcar—and saved it from the scrap heap.

For our fiftieth anniversary, four of the original ten members—Dave Harling, Charlie Reynolds, Paul Harling, and Paul Miglierina—have collaborated, with the agreement of the surviving members, to share their memories of the earliest days of the Association, telling the story of Type 5 streetcar No. 5706 and the founding of the Boston Street Railway Association...

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