{"id":63789,"date":"2026-07-18T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63789"},"modified":"2026-07-11T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:04:12","slug":"around-the-world-in-trams-mattapan-line-3268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63789","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in Trams: Mattapan Line 3268"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We carry on with \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d as we are still in the USA on the Mattapan Line.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As we\u2019ve seen over the past couple of weeks the Mattapan Line is exclusively operated by a fleet of 1940s PCC cars at the moment. They run the 2.6 mile long line as they have done for many decades.<\/p>\n<p>This is <strong>3268<\/strong> which is at Mattapan. This car was built by the Pullman-Standard Car Company in 1946 and has called Boston home ever since it was constructed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_63790\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3268-ib.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63790\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-63790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3268-ib-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3268-ib-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3268-ib-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3268-ib.jpg 1261w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ian Buck, 27th May 2025<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We carry on with \u201cAround the World in Trams\u201d as we are still in the USA on the Mattapan Line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63791,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63789\/revisions\/63791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}