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Monthly Meetings

One of the Association's most popular and most visible activities are out monthly meetings, which are held at the Grand Lodge of Masons' Paul Revere Room, 186 Tremont Street, in downtown Boston, MA (See map on right). They are always open to all and free of charge.

Meetings begin at 7:30PM, typically on the first Saturday of every month. A short business meeting (including a detailed current events segment on MBTA news and transit happenings near and far) is followed by an entertainment program, consisting of film and digital slideshows, videos and films of past and present transit operations form around the nation and the world. Entertainment begins at aproximately 8:15PM and generally lasts about two hours.

In the event of severe weather, we may be forced to cancel a meeting. A notice will be posted on the home page of this website, and on our Facebook and Twitter feeds, by 4PM the day of the meeting in the rare event of a cancellation.


Upcoming Meetings

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December 3, 2011
Scenes Around Greater Boston: An Intermediate Member Presents
Ryan Anderson—age 11, and already an accomplished Rollsign photographer—will present images from his collection, featuring views of MBTA equipment in the past two years. He'll also show a few other scenes from eastern Massachusetts, including various Regional Transit Authorities (RTAs), private buses, and Amtrak.

January 7, 2012
An Italian Outing
Herb Pence took a trip to Italy in the summer of 2011, and now we get to see what he saw. First he'll show us a recently constructed light rail line in Florence, and then a historic tram line in Trieste. He'll also salt the show with images of the vaporetti, which act as streetcars for Venice—but running in water.

February 4, 2012
Loring Lawrence Takes Us to Greece
Besides being the birthplace of classic civilization, Greece is also home to standard and narrow gauge railways (diesel, electric, and steam), trams, buses, electric trolley buses, and a very extensive ferry system linking the Aegean Islands with each other and the mainland. Loring will also show us these transportation systems in context with the great cities of ancient civilization.

March 3, 2012
The Fab Four, Part 2: American Traction in the 50's and 60's
Following up on Part One presented in June 2011 (Boston, New York City area and a little bit of Jersey), George Chiasson returns to pick up from that point to examine images of Newark, Philadelphia, and Chicago captured between 1950 and 1969. Many are from the collection of the late Gerry Landau, or were procured through the late Joe Diaz of Chicago. Views include trolley and rapid transit systems of that era.

April 7, 2012
A Pennsylvania Double Feature
Tadd Anderson presents Philadelphia Trolleys II, a Ray Nielsen Production, showing scenes of the Philadelphia Transportation Company and the transition to SEPTA, from PCCs to the Kawasaki streetcars still running today. Then Donald Nevin presents Traction in Pennsylvania, Volume 1, from Herron Rail Video, which shows Pennsylvania cities from Philadelphia through Pittsburg, with several stops in between, featuring streetcars, interurban service, and elevated trains.

2012 Meeting Dates:
May 5, June 2, July 14, August 4, September 8, October 13, November 3 and December 1.