The end of the line - for now

The trolley shown is simply a "snake car" made by splicing 2 older, smaller cars into a caller articulated unit. If you zoom successful you tin marque retired the Hunter motion box; but the way fig is inactive a spot fuzzy. Nevertheless, this looks to beryllium a Division One car precise apt operating retired of Lotus Place Carhouse. {Lotus Place opened astir 1896 and would beryllium replaced by the modern Arborway Carhouse July 1926.} The past of the snake cars a.k.a. "two-rooms-and-a-bath" ran astir 1923.

The trackage present was besides shared by a "foreign car" enactment serving respective towns southwest of Boston. The MBTA presently operates some the "local" and "suburban" routes, sorta coordinated, from Forest Hills Station.

Unlike routes successful Cambridge and Roxbury, which tin beryllium traced backmost to the omnibus lines of the 1840s and 1850s, this enactment and others successful the country day purely from the epoch of 1890s electrical traction. They chiefly served to link the respective towns and villages with Milton Lower Mills and Forest Hills.

A last note: Mount Bellevue Carhouse was a country-style installation that would look much astatine location successful Sunderland than wrong Boston metropolis limits. Built by the West Roxbury & Roslindale Street Railway successful 1896 it yet saw its last days arsenic a retention barn; summertime recovered it afloat of snowfall plows and closed electrics, wintertime afloat of unfastened electrics. Burger King present occupies the site.