Boxcab Montreal’s Suburban Electrics
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This video was shot over 20 years ago – just in time to catch Montreal’s commuter boxcabs.

Go back in time to the “Muni” after WWII to the 1980s. See when the “Iron Monsters” ruled Market Street and watch PCC cars of long ago when they were run as double-ended cars.

Experience The Milwaukee Road of the early 1970s as Pentrex takes you on a three-volume video adventure along the CMStP&P’s Rocky Mountain Division!

Step back to the 1930s-1950s to experience one of the largest interurban railroads in the country. The Illinois Terminal Railroad was a significant provider of passenger and freight service for central Illinois, with Springfield as its hub.

Here is as complete a look at the Chicago traction/trolley/interurban scene as you are likely to find!

Through the magic of vintage film, now digitized, we can see the way things used to be! Where in New England would you look to find an interurban trolley line that interchanged with a major steam railroad, crossed a state line on a toll bridge, hauled freight behind steeplecab freight motors and served several large industries in a small city?

The New Haven was a compact giant! It dominated the transportation industry in southern New England. The NY, NH & H ran a lot of traffic over a relatively small number of route miles.

The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway had just added “and Pacific” to its name by crossing the Continental Divide, the Bitterroots and the Cascades to reach the Puget Sound. And now the railroad was going to take on electrification!
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