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Thanks for visiting the online home of the Boston Street Railway Association. For over 60 years, the BSRA has been preserving New England’s rich transit history—we invite you along for the ride!
Our Next Virtual Meeting:
AUGUST 1, 2026
Douglas Kydd Presents Boston’s Commuter Rail: From Heritage To State of the Art
Once upon a time, not so long ago, rail transportation in the Boston suburbs came under many different banners: the New Haven to the south, the Boston & Maine to the north, and for those in the west, the New York Central, still known to some as the Boston & Albany. For a while, a new company, Penn Central, made an appearance. Now things have changed; it’s all under one flag, the one with a circle-T emblem. Come view images of Commuter Rail, from before it was called that, up to the present MBTA era, where it is a sometimes unified, and sometimes not-so-unified operation, whose participants struggle to maintain their own identities in the not-so-blended melting pot of Mass Transit in the Boston Area.
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