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Some pics that bring me back.. Boston’s elevated Orange Line.
MBTA Orange Line at Forest Hills Station (my old home base)
Inbound train at Green St., looking south
Green St., looking inbound
Egleston Station, my stop for school
Goin over the Mystic River
In the South End. You can see the sign for St Vincent de Paul in the background.
Elevated Orange Line in Roxbury. Check out Skippy Whites, best spot for vinyl back in the day.
Pulling out of Forest Hills Station, looking from the bus yard.
The elevated Orange Line tracks (R.I.P.) being removed, looking north from Forest Hills.
The above pics are taken from NYCsubway.org. Those are just some of my favorite pics, mainly because they are of my old stomping ground. Check out more old school MBTA flics on their website.
Coz getting up in 1986 (est). Mass, Tale, and Spell tags also up. (* above 2 pics stolen from the web, forgot where)
the old train route, 1979 MBTA map
The actual ride, Forest Hills to Dudley
part 2 of the ride
..and don’t forget their appearance at the end of the St. Elsewhere tv show’s intro.
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Good little video of the Elevated from PBS
http://openvault.wgbh.org/ton/MLA000496/index.html
Comment by BFC December 28, 2008 @ 8:48 pmDope link above. Thanks.
Comment by aloneone December 29, 2008 @ 3:01 amWonderful photos, sure bring back the memories. . . thank you.
Comment by jseiff May 20, 2009 @ 4:28 pmjs
how are was wondering if i could have a coulpe of photos sent to me, train leaving foresthill, the green st inbound and the shot of dudly
Comment by ray July 30, 2009 @ 9:54 amLike it says in the post, “The above pics are taken from NYCsubway.org”, so ask or credit them like I did.
Comment by aloneone August 8, 2009 @ 11:40 pmThe pic where it says “Goin over the Charles River” is actually over the Mystic River. That overpass is behind the Assembly Square Mall.
Comment by AaRON February 9, 2010 @ 2:50 pmThanks. All fixed. I was always on the southern side of the old orange line.
Comment by aloneone February 9, 2010 @ 8:51 pm[…] a) After a few decades of decay in the 60s and 70s, it would have been torn down in the 80s (a la the Boston Orange line): […]
Pingback by Capp Street On High « Burrito Justice March 15, 2010 @ 5:20 pmMy jaw dropped when i saw the pic of COZ tagging Dudley station…I used to run with MASS and CHANT( I spied his tag in there too) back in the 80’s…My tag was GEO. MASS and I were in the NSA crew. Just think about how many beautiful rooftop pieces there were to be seen, ONLY from the El train perspective! I wish i had a camera with me during the many trips I took via the Orange line…Great site by the way! So Nostalgic! Good luck and my respect for your talent Alone!
Comment by Geo One May 22, 2010 @ 7:04 pm^^^ GEO NSA. Good to hear from you. Much respect.
Comment by aloneone May 24, 2010 @ 2:06 am[…] Boston’s MBTA Orange Line went into the trench in 1987 it was (arguably) a beautiful elevated trainline. Forest Hills station would become my “ground zero”. Here are some pics from the late […]
Pingback by Forest Hills MBTA station 1980′s « ALONE ONE's blog – AloneOne.com April 29, 2011 @ 2:50 pm10 yr resident of Bromley-Heath housing projects and Franklin Hill housing projects, I am writing on Egleston Sq
Comment by gerard (gerry) roy January 4, 2012 @ 2:35 pmWow !! I can remember walking to egleston station
Comment by steve January 5, 2012 @ 12:21 amin the 70’s with my father and getting the train.
Then the turn going into to dudley not sure
with that, but the wheels squealing and the train
tilting thinking to myself this train is going to fall
off. great memories and thanks for the pics.
great pics, 1850 washington st. and northampton station was were I called home, and where new edition filmed candy girl. streets seem so empty when the lines went down. looks like a different world now from what it was, not necessarily a bad thing. Still I think about the old orange line with fond memories.
Comment by d. mann October 29, 2012 @ 2:07 amFantastic footage. Please correct the title. This train goes WAY beyond Dudley Street northbound into the South Portal (tunnel) to Essex Street station (now Chinatown station). Whoever had the foresight to capture this should be saluted! Thank You. Thank You.
Comment by John Zager January 29, 2013 @ 11:51 amthis really makes me home sick. I use to ride the train to and from Dudley Station/Forest Hills when I went to Washington Irving Jr.High School in Rosalindale, Mass.
Comment by cherb April 24, 2013 @ 4:18 amI could listen to this close my eyes and I’m right back there, on my way to school again. Thanks
My grandparents used to live in Beech Street projects and my family lived in Dorchester/Mattapan, so the Orange Line was always part of any trip to my grandparents for holidays and stuff. Thanks for the nice memories.
Comment by Suldog October 23, 2016 @ 10:34 pmI suppose that sounds weird, but there was no direct route from our place in Lower Mills Dorchester, so we took the Mattapan trolley to Ashmont, the Red to what was then “Washington” (now Downtown Crossing), then switched to the Orange to Forest Hills, and then a bus after that. Took forever, but when I was a kid I always looked forward to it because I’d get to ride the “train in the sky”.
Comment by Suldog October 23, 2016 @ 10:41 pmI have a distinct memory of Mass. Ave Station and also Berkeley Street station, but can’t find on any maps! Do you recall these?
Comment by Jayne Adams May 9, 2020 @ 10:01 am