Blue Line Blues and Restoration Row

A month ago, Kris and I drove by the Seashore Trolley Museum near Kennebunkport, Maine.

I loved this place as a kid. The old railway cars and trolleys fascinated me.

On our most recent visit, I found it stange to find a pair of Boston Blue Line cars on ‘Restoration Row’. It used to be that the cars at Seashore were all ancient relics from a time before I was born.

Lumix LX7 photo; February 2023.
Lumix LX7 photo; February 2023.

I applaud the museum’s foresight to have preserved these Blue Line cars for posterity and I hope they obtain the necessary resources to restore them. Maybe some day we’ll go for a spin on them

In 1999, I made a color slide of similar cars at work on Boston’s Blue Line, before I boarded a flight across the Atlantic.

Blue Line cars at the Airport Station in June 1999. Exposed on Fujichrome slide film with a Nikon.

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