Tripper Tuesday: Boston (Part I)


Welcome everyone to Tripper Tuesday here at Metro Transit Archives. Today will be the first of two parts focusing on a trip taken to Boston Thanksgiving weekend.

This first part will contain twenty-five photos from Friday's action. So sit back and enjoy the ride.

 
 Yes, you read the time right...I took this photo at 6:15am
 
Lucky 777...0777 laying over on Route 245 at Mattapan Station
 
A foreign visitor...and the only time you'll see a Gillig in Boston
 
2216 is welcoming me to Boston
 
In the course of my day, I met up with a father and son transit fan at Haymarket.
 
Due to Government Center's closing, a shuttle is operated between Haymarket and Government Center, dubbed Route 608.
 
0832 seen traveling through the Chelsea neighborhood
 
0678 in Bellingham Square at Route 111's busiest stop 
 
It was a balmy 29 degrees when 0352 passes the TD bank on Route 116
 
2081 rolls out of Forest Hills on Route 32 leaking coolant. It didn't get far...
 
An un-rehabbed Neoplan sitting at Kenmore. The 0400 and 0500 series are in the progress of being rehabbed by Midwest Bus
 
Good old Ruggles. Two CNG NABIs depart the station with the Prudential building looming above
 
6015, one of 13 remaining New Flyer C40LF in service is seen entering JFK/UMASS Station
 
A set of Red Line Train entering JFK station
 
1406, one of sixty new Xcelsior Hybrids is clean as a whistle loading at Haymarket
 
0600, the first of 310 D40LFs is seen in Historic Bunker Hill
 
Sullivan Square, the home of a dozen routes has three departing in this photo.
 
0332, soldiering on at 19 years old is  seen leaving Sullivan Square
 
The clash of clouds and church steeple makes for a nice scene photo with 0721
 
Although trackless trolleys operate on Routes 71-73, ones will go into service under Route 77 due to the line's proximity to Cambridge carhouse.
 
Stop and go traffic and a bench helped capture this shot of 0363 in Cambridge
 
Rusty but reliable 3691 on the Green Line inbound in Brookline
 
A Type 8 Breda is ready to turn off of Brighton Avenue and continue on Commonwealth
 
A pair of Neoplans are resting in Watertown Yard on Route 57.
 
 
Hoped you enjoyed the presentation...next stop...To Mailbox or not to Mailbox...

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