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1999.1912e.jpg
A composite of two postcards showing the car barn, power plant and superintend's resident of the C, M & H Trolley.

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2011.46e.jpg
This house is moving along Main Street in front of #56, P. Sullivan Clothing Cleaned, Pressed, Dyed and ???. The business next door is the Marlboro Dye House, Cleaners and Dyers. The #19 car trolley (an open 12 bench Wasson with a seating capacity…

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1999.1668e.jpg
The first picture is a photo of the square showing the trolley car heading west. The second picture is a copy of a postcard made from the first picture. Not the electric poles and wire are removed and the trees have leafed out!

1999.2369e.jpg
A view of Main Street at the Maynard (Masonic) Block and the band stand. The post office was in the Masonic Block, 100 Main St.

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Right: 1. Band Stand; 2. Masonic Block (post office); 3. Creighton Block (Johnson Pharmacy); Center: CM&H Railway Car; Left: Riverside Hall (A.T. Haynes Co); 2. Wall, fence and trees in front of Amory Maynard, II residence; 3. Naylor Block (destroyed…

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1999.533e.jpg
Photograph of downtown Maynard in 1910 showing a trolley at the corner of Main St. & Nason St.

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Panoramic photograph shows where the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Railway connects to the Lowell, Acton and Maynard line.

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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…

1999.975e.jpg
This spike was found at the former carbarn of the Concord, Maynard and Hudson Street Railroad. It was likely used for the trolley tracks.

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The Concord, Maynard and Hudson trolley opened in 1901 and later was extended from Maynard to South Acton and West Acton. This small booklet was produced to give guidance to the employees of the trolley. Note on the sample page 24 the procedure to…

1999.B204e.jpg
Men identified in photos are: Phil Bower, Cornelius Lynch and Ed Ledgard.

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A book that describes the development of the Concord, Maynard & Hudson trolley from its origin in 1899 to its demise in 1922. It includes photos of the rolling stock, employees and carhouse, timetables, usage, fares, finances, a description of riding…

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The trolley car is coming from Maynard turning the corner from Main Street onto Church Street in West Concord.

1999.B93e.jpg
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.