The wire car and orange 3263 occupied the same yard track in Mattapan, the end of the line. It's a 10-minute ride to Ashmont.
The last of the approximately 5,000 PCC cars built for North American use was San Francisco's Muni Car No. 1040, built by the St. Louis Car Co., and accepted for Muni service in 1952. Modernized versions of the cars were produced in other countries for several years after that. PCCs are still operated seven days a week in Boston, Newark, and Toronto.

Photographed by Leo King, January 8, 2002.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, May 15, 2004.
Railroad: MBTA.

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