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<\/p>\nIn October 2014, I photographed this old MBTA (Boston) PCC car at the Connecticut Trolley Museum at East Windsor, Connecticut.<\/p>\n
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Just a rusty old ruin; but the car and its Kenmore destination board, brought me back to the early 1970s when my family lived a few blocks from MBTA\u2019s Riverside Line at Newton Centre.<\/p>\n
This route had been\u00a0the \u00a0Boston & Albany Highlands Branch, and was converted to a trolley line in 1960.<\/p>\n
As young child, I was permitted freedom to wander around the neighborhood. My fascination with railways naturally brought me to the trolley line.<\/p>\n
One afternoon, I\u2019d been watching the PCC\u2019s coming and going in front of the old B&A station. I\u2019d often traveled on the cars with my parents, and I understood how the system worked.<\/p>\n
Taking a chance, I quietly boarded one of the cars through the back door. I rode to Kenmore Square, where I boarded another car and returned to Newton Centre. I might have been five at the time. More than 40 years passed before I told anyone\u00a0of this adventure.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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