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Our Next Virtual Meeting:
APRIL 4, 2026
Chicago Transit Fans Do Boston; Behind the Scenes at Lotus Place; and a Green Line Potpourri from 1980
Donald Nevin returns to treat us to three mini-shows. First will be a Boston fan trip by a Chicago transit group on June 25, 1978, in which the group chartered a former Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway gasoline bus from the 1930s that had been painted in Boston Elevated Railway colors for the 1978 film The Brink’s Job (for footage that never ended up being actually used for the film), together with a larger and newer ACF Brill bus owned by Peter Sheinfeld and painted in MTA livery. This fan trip visited many bus to rail transfer stations on the T, and includes many photos that can no longer be taken.
Next, Donald takes us on a brief tour of the Lotus Place heating plant in 1962, showing us where he worked behind the scenes during the MTA days, in infrastructure that is now gone.
Finally, he will present a potpourri of Boston Green Line equipment from 1980, Boeing LRVs, including two of the three visiting CLRVs, ex-Dallas car #3344 (made into a work car), Type III snowplows, and other work equipment at Riverside, and the move of vintage Boston Elevated Railway cars #475 (pre-Type I Newburyport-built, 1903) and #5736 from Watertown Carhouse to Riverside, as well as views (again including two CLRVs) at Arborway.
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