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Subject: [MAMIDDLE] Re: MAMIDDLE-D Digest V03 #273
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:18:48 EST
In a message dated 11/3/2003 1:02:07 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> As far as men .. working at the "car barns," they could have just been
> "attendants" making sure that people got on and off the trolley's OK. Or,
> they could have been the men .. who had to go "rescue" a trolley .. when
> their "electrical rods/wires" had become unconnected from the overhead
> wires. Or, perhaps they repaired the trolleys, or perhaps they cleaned
> the trolley's before they were "parked" for the night.
>
> I'm pretty sure that the "trolleys" are still used in Cambridge, and thus
> the "car barns" in Cambridge are probably still there. There is one
> right on Massachusetts Avenue, I think near Porter Square.
>
> In the Lowell area, the remainders of the trolley-car tracks can still be
> found in Lowell and in the major roads in neighboring Chelmsford and
> Billerica.
>
cambridge trackless trolleys work came out of chalestown garage
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