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The Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway (Eastern Mass) was a streetcar and later bus company in eastern Massachusetts, serving most suburbs of Boston. Much of its routes are now run by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. a historic postcard showing electric trolley-powered streetcars in Richmond, Virginia, where Frank J. Sprague successfully demonstrated his new system on the hills in 1888 A streetcar is a railway vehicle designed to carry passengers on tracks, usually laid in city streets. ... The Bus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ... State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th) - Land 20,317 km² - Water 7,043 km² (25. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburban redirects here. ... Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is a quasi-governmental organization formed in 1964 that controls the subway, bus, commuter rail, and ferry systems in the Boston, Massachusetts area. ...
BERy connection points
The Eastern Mass connected to the Boston Elevated Railway (BERy) system at many points; through service continued along BERy trackage at some. By 1925, streetcars were gone from most downtown streets. ...
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Milton Lower Mills
Mattapan
Forest Hills - the Hyde Park division was sold to the BERy ca. 1930, unifying routes across Forest Hills but creating other connection points.
John A. Fisher, president of the Nashua StreetRailway, was notified on Jan. 1, 1918 that the 1900 lease would not be adopted by the new controllers of the Bay State StreetRailway and that the property would be surrendered to its stockholders as of February 1.
A man of many years experience in the traction industry, Holst effectively became general manager of the Nashua StreetRailway and was named to its board of directors in 1920, serving in the former post until late 1930 and as a director until the railway went out of business.
For the remainder of the year the Nashua StreetRailway ran its cars between Nashua and the state line where connections were made with EasternMassachusettsStreetRailway trolleys to and from Lowell.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is a quasi-governmental organization formed in 1964 that controls most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the Boston, Massachusetts, USA area.
This was the first elevated railway and the first rapid transit line in Boston, still coming three years before the first underground line of the New York City Subway (but long after the first elevated railway in New York).
The outer routes to the north and south were bought from the EasternMassachusettsStreetRailway in 1968, and the west suburban routes in 1972 from the Middlesex and BostonStreetRailway (note: both of these companies had long since ceased running any streetcar service).
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