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The dealership was operated by E. Nelson at 9 Powder Mill Road, Maynard, Mass.

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The first B & M passenger train from South Acton to Maynard was in July 1850.

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The first and third photo shows the car barn before the fire and after it was rebuilt. The other photos show the structure after the fire.

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The car barn was built by the trolley company in 1901, on the south side of the Great Boston Road, near the intersection of Main Street, Maynard. It was brick construction with a wood roof, measuring 51 ft by 204 ft, having four tracks accommodating…

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The electricity to run the trolley was generated in this building. It was a brick building with iron trusses, 48 by 120 ft., covered with a wood roof overlaid with tar and gravel.
The interior of the structure had two Babcock & Wilcox boilers…

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The photo shows the Superintend's House, Power Station, and Car Barn/Office.

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The old Jitney Bus was typical rolling stock of the C, M & H bus line that later became the Lovell Bus Line

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This was the car barn for the former trolley now out of business. The bus company later became the Lovell Bus Line.

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Men identified in photos are: Phil Bower, Cornelius Lynch and Ed Ledgard.

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The trolley first went into service in 1901. Here a car is returning from Concord on Powder Mill Road approaching a turn onto Summer Street.

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A trolley car crossing the Assabet River at the Powder Mill Woods.

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The car is on Nason St. returning from South Acton. The watering trough in the foreground is now at the corner of Acton and Summer Streets in front of the fire station.

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Plates read:1st - Erected for W. F. Litchield
2nd- The United Construction Co
Contractors,
Albany N.Y.
American
Bridge Co,
of N.Y.
Builders

The bridge was built in…