Monthly Meetings
Every month, we hold a meeting online via Zoom that is open to members and guests alike. These are usually held on the first weekend of the month, unless it is a holiday weekend. Each meeting begins with a brief business portion, which includes MBTA current events, followed by an entertainment presentation on a transit-related topic.
Virtual Meeting Link
Our March 2026 Meeting will be held on March 7 at 7:30PM EST.
BSRA Members and guests can access the meeting live via Zoom using the button below. Regular Members should also review full reports at this link before the meeting, as they will be voted on for approval.
Dial in by phone (audio only):
Call 1-646-558-8656 (Outside the US? Find your local number here) and enter the below details when prompted:
Meeting ID: 814 9257 2138
Passcode: 766302
Upcoming Meeting & Entertainment Schedule
Below you will find dates and scheduled entertainment programs for our next virtual meetings. Interested in being a presenter? Let us know!
MARCH 7, 2026
New England Trolley Freight
New England used to have extensive freight service by trolley, with interurban and local deliveries of less-than-carload freight with agility that the steam railroads could not match, with less pollution and greater energy efficiency than the trucks that replaced it. Another excellent Leo Sullivan show!
Please note: This is a change from Leo’s previously-announced program. He will give a presentation on the B&M in the City of Boston at a later date.
APRIL 4, 2026
Chicago Transit Fans Do Boston; Behind the Scenes at Lotus Place; and a Green Line Potpourri from 1980
Donald Nevin returns to treat us to three mini-shows. First will be a Boston fan trip by a Chicago transit group on June 25, 1978, in which the group chartered a former Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway gasoline bus from the 1930s that had been painted in Boston Elevated Railway colors for the 1978 film The Brink’s Job (for footage that never ended up being actually used for the film), together with a larger and newer ACF Brill bus owned by Peter Sheinfeld and painted in MTA livery. This fan trip visited many bus to rail transfer stations on the T, and includes many photos that can no longer be taken.
Next, Donald takes us on a brief tour of the Lotus Place heating plant in 1962, showing us where he worked behind the scenes during the MTA days, in infrastructure that is now gone.
Finally, he will present a potpourri of Boston Green Line equipment from 1980, Boeing LRVs, including two of the three visiting CLRVs, ex-Dallas car #3344 (made into a work car), Type III snowplows, and other work equipment at Riverside, and the move of vintage Boston Elevated Railway cars #475 (pre-Type I Newburyport-built, 1903) and #5736 from Watertown Carhouse to Riverside, as well as views (again including two CLRVs) at Arborway.
Save the Dates!
Additional meeting dates for 2026 include May 2, June 6, July 11, August 1, September 12, October 3 (Annual Meeting), November 7, and December 5. Entertainment information to come!
BSRA Zoom Meeting Guidelines & Tips
We use the Zoom platform to conduct our virtual monthly meetings. At 7:30PM on the day of the meeting, you can join by clicking the link posted on this page, or by dialing in using your phone to the number listed on this page. Please note a few basic rules:
- All attendees will enter a “waiting room” before being admitted into the meeting by the host
- All attendees will be muted on entry, and are asked to keep themselves muted for the duration of the meeting
- Attendees are asked to use the chat feature in Zoom to raise any questions, rather than speaking, to allow the meeting to run efficiently and minimize cross-talk
- Anyone wishing to raise any items of New or Old Business, or any Current Events items, should also post them using the Chat feature when prompted during the meeting
Note: You do not need to install the Zoom software to join the meeting, though it does provide a better experience. Instead, you can click “join in your browser” after clicking the meeting link, or you can dial in by phone. Note: dialing in by phone will only provide meeting audio, and does not allow for viewing slides, voting in polls, or participating in the meeting chat.