Boston Line Car Moves to Shelburne Falls

Thanks to Ellie Flint for the above photo and for reporting the news that earlier today Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority line car 3283 touched down at the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum. This line car, built by Henry E. Dow (a local house builder) for the Boston MTA in 1949, was deaccessed by the Seashore Trolley Museum late last year and offered up for sale. At first, Seashore intended to strip and retain the car's electrical equipment, but in the end it was offered to SFTM as a complete car.

Car 3283 is the Massachusetts museum's fourth electric car, their third MBTA car, and their first piece of traction work equipment. Their plan is to repair the electrical fault that sidelined the car some years back at Seashore and put it back into operation. Kudos to them for preserving a piece of equipment that otherwise might have been dismantled.