A couple of Pullman-Standard PCC's line up at Mattapan Station waiting for the Starters signal to depart. They will be heading inbound to Ashmont Station, Dorchester, on the "High Speed Line". Mattapan Square has had a long history of railway use. Prior to the "High Speed" Line's inception in 1929, there had been other lines which looped at the Square, including the West Roxbury and Roslindale Street Railway Company. W R & R St. Ry. "Barrel Cars" went to Mattapan Square as far back as 1899, on the Roslindale Square route, via the steep hills of Ashland and Oakland Streets.

Photographed by Paul Joyce, April 9, 2000.
Added to the photo archive by Paul Joyce, May 28, 2006.
Railroad: MBTA.

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