Maps Gallery
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Boston in 1880, highlighting horse railroads
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Boston Elevated Railway streetcar lines in 1940. Lighter lines were abandoned earlier; the darkest ones still existed in 1969.
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Streetcar lines remaining in Boston in 1953.
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MBTA Commuter Rail service in 1975.
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Geographically accurate MBTA map (2011)
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