All,

Does the attached link show Worcester Consolidated Street Railway motor flat 038?

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo ... y%20Museum

If it is it is the last domestically known piece of WCSR equipment left. (There are rumors that some Osgood-Bradley lightweights exist in Brazil)

Does anyone from Seashore know if there is any movement to protect it? I do understand it is in poor at best shape...

Also does anyone have any pictures of the Boston and Worcester car 149?

I live just off WSCRs route 19 trackage in Leicester, hence the interest.

Thank you in advance for your responses...

Ted.

No, the car in the link is actually Boston Elevated Railway 2003, homebuilt in 1910, acquired by Seashore in 1980 and scrapped in 2005, about a year after that photo was taken. According to my roster information, flat motor 038 is in a state of disassembly and some of its mechanical components have been put to use in other restoration projects. I do not know the car's exact state of disassembly nor whether there are any plans to ever reassemble it.

Thank you Frank for your quick response. Are there any pictures of it prior to being dissemble available for viewing?

I drive rt9 from Worcester to Leicester daily and watch the rails come up through the street in the winter. There is also the remains of a trolley park in Charlton off rt20, on old Worcester and Southbridge RoW. It closed in 1924. I also go by the street that used to house the American Sprinker Car Company, also in the Webster Square area of Worcester.

Does anyone have other sites in the Worcester area relating to the WCSR?

Two more I can remember, the Grove Street shops still have the track in the floor in the old car barn spaces. They use the barn to service WRTA buses now....

The old RoW for the Boston-Worcester Airline is visible from the MBTA commuter rail as you leave Grafton Station toward Westborough after Tuft's Vet School, on the right hand side of the train. It is best seen in the fall-winter as the leaves do not block the view...

Ted.

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The old RoW for the Boston-Worcester Airline is visible from the MBTA commuter rail as you leave Grafton Station toward Westborough after Tuft's Vet School, on the right hand side of the train. It is best seen in the fall-winter as the leaves do not block the view...

Ted.[/quote]

Nice post, but the ROW described is the old Boston & Worcester RR alignment that was re-done approx 1912. A remnant of the old ROW is visible on Arch St in Westboro. The original arch-bridge is long-gone, but the "fill" is still visible. It is easily hiked from Arch street...

I can think of a few survivors from streetcar era... How about the Trolley Stop in East Brookfield? I believe it was an office for the streetcar company at one point, and I hear the food they serve is pretty good... The buildings in the pictures on the town website have seen some modifications over the years, but they're still original.
http://www.eastbrookfieldma.us/Then%20a ... St%201.htm
Kinda sad that the whole system shut down. Some of the routes in Worcester might be viable with the recent development program in the downtown area... I can see a relatively well-patronized service on some of the old routes to White City and Downtown... Maybe a new connection from City Hall to Union Station through the City Square project. The WRTA (local transit) is working on a new terminal right at the station ;)

G-U-RR,

Thanks for the clarification. I was told by a resident that it was a trolley roadbed.

A couple more locations:

The Trolley Shopping area on Rt9 in Framingham, was a Boston and Worcester Carbarn.

In Worcester, Fantasia Street and the DPW garage is the site of the Boston and Worcester's Freight Shed after they moved from the Green Street Freight Shed.

The boat launch ramp in Auburn on Dark Brook Res. is actually the roadbed of the Worcester and Southbridge line of the Worcester Consolidated. When the water is low is easy to see. I have documented this trail on my YouTube video here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ls0AJIOEo

Ted.