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(122k, 820x565)<br><b>Country:</b> United States<br><b>City:</b> Boston, MA<br><b>System:</b> MBTA<br><b>Line:</b> MBTA Mattapan-Ashmont Line<br><b>Location:</b> Mattapan<br><b>Car:</b> SOAC <br><b>Photo by:</b> Brian J. Cudahy<br><b>Date:</b> 1975<br><b>Notes:</b> When the DOT SOAC visited Boston in 1975, it required a complicated middle-of-the-night cutting of track along the Mattapan-Ashmont Line to let the test cars move to and from what was then Penn Central trackage. On the night the cars left MBTA property a dramatic photo was staged with the SOAC posing next to what was arguably the oldest piece of active transit rolling stock in America, then used as a snow plow on the Mattapan-Ashmont line.<br><b>Viewed (this week/total):</b> 2 / 5583

(122k, 820x565)
Country: United States
City: Boston, MA
System: MBTA
Line: MBTA Mattapan-Ashmont Line
Location: Mattapan
Car: SOAC
Photo by: Brian J. Cudahy
Date: 1975
Notes: When the DOT SOAC visited Boston in 1975, it required a complicated middle-of-the-night cutting of track along the Mattapan-Ashmont Line to let the test cars move to and from what was then Penn Central trackage. On the night the cars left MBTA property a dramatic photo was staged with the SOAC posing next to what was arguably the oldest piece of active transit rolling stock in America, then used as a snow plow on the Mattapan-Ashmont line.
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 5583

Available Image EXIF Data:
Camera make : HP
Camera model : HP ScanJet 3970
Resolution : 820 x 565

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