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7042 at Chelsea Square ready for a trip back to Lynn.
This was a turnback point for all cars on this line after the Mystic River bridge was condemmed in 1935. A waiting room was made out of a EMSR 4200 series car so patrons had a place to wait for connecting buses.
This car and 14 other 7000's received red marker lights in 1934 under a DPU order requiring all Eastern Mass cars operating at night on state highways to be equipped with such lights when operating on the side of the road against oncoming traffic.
In 1934, 15 of these cars were assigned to the Lowell, Lawerence, Salem, and Lynn divisions.
While 7012 was assigned to Lynn, it and 18 other 7000s were shopped in Lynn at the Belt Line Eastern Mass shops and then transferred to the Quincy division between May and July 1935. They served in Quincy from 1935-1948.
The Boston Elevated Railway purchased 15 7000's from the Eastern Mass, 10 in 1936, #'s 4400-4409 and five in 1937, 4410-4414. The rest of the northern division 7000s were sold to Birmingham AL, who converted them to front-entrance, center exit, single end cars!
This was a turnback point for all cars on this line after the Mystic River bridge was condemmed in 1935. A waiting room was made out of a EMSR 4200 series car so patrons had a place to wait for connecting buses.
This car and 14 other 7000's received red marker lights in 1934 under a DPU order requiring all Eastern Mass cars operating at night on state highways to be equipped with such lights when operating on the side of the road against oncoming traffic.
In 1934, 15 of these cars were assigned to the Lowell, Lawerence, Salem, and Lynn divisions.
While 7012 was assigned to Lynn, it and 18 other 7000s were shopped in Lynn at the Belt Line Eastern Mass shops and then transferred to the Quincy division between May and July 1935. They served in Quincy from 1935-1948.
The Boston Elevated Railway purchased 15 7000's from the Eastern Mass, 10 in 1936, #'s 4400-4409 and five in 1937, 4410-4414. The rest of the northern division 7000s were sold to Birmingham AL, who converted them to front-entrance, center exit, single end cars!
Caption data from Roger Jenkins and George Zeiba, photo courtesy the Bill Volkmer collection
