This is slide EBC735 in our internal filing system.
This was the end of the line of a streetcar route that ran into Boston's subway via the Pleasant Street Portal. It was converted to bus in November 1961 and the portal was closed in April 1962. This was part of a gradual elimination of street running on the Boston system, to the point where the only such operation today is on a portion of the Huntington Avenue line.
The Pleasant Street Portal connected to Boston's subway system starting in 1897. From the Wikipedia: "On March 2, 1953, the City Point line was replaced by the 9 bus route. The tracks to Tremont Street, formerly connected to the west tracks of the portal, were realigned to the east tracks, allowing a bus transfer station to be built where the west tracks had been. The Tremont Street line was bustituted as the 43 route on November 20, 1961, and a streetcar shuttle started between the portal and Boylston, with transfers to the subway. This shuttle was short-lived, ending with closure of the portal on April 6, 1962. The Pleasant Street portal is now covered by Elliot Norton Park at the intersection of Tremont Street, Shawmut Avenue, and Oak Street West."
Boston's first PCC car arrived in 1937, and the rest were built between then and 1951 by the Pullman company. A few are still in use today on the Ashmont-Mattapan line.
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