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MAY 2, 2026
Heading West by Trolley: The Boston & Worcester and Beyond
The Boston & Worcester railroad once provided service not only to Boston and Worcester, but many points in between, as well as some branch line services. In the 1920s to 1930s, this service was replaced by buses along with the Worcester Turnpike (Massachusetts Route 9), and has now mostly disappeared, with only a few scattered fragments of some routes providing a pale shadow of the former service in a few areas. Leo Sullivan returns to show the interurban service that once ran here, along with views of the Worcester Consolidated Railway, and interurban trolley service from points beyond.
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