The Walker Transportation - Steam Rollers of New England

LB Walker's 1930 Cord

"Steam Rollers of New England"


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Here is something you don't see anymore! Steam rollers (and one steam shovel)! If you have pictures of any construction vehicles that you'd like to share with the Walker Transportation Collection, we'd like to see a copy. Please e-mail us at .

Medford Steam Rollers

The steam roller graveyard. Compare the two Buffalo-Springfield horizontal-boilered steam rollers on the left to the smaller vertical-boilered roller on the right. This scene is at the Medford Highway Department garage in Medford, Massachusetts on March 20, 1948. (Photo by Laurence I. Beake . Walker Transportation Collection)

Eastern Mass. St. Ry. Steam Roller

This Buffalo-Springfield steam roller was used by the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway. This photo was taken in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1920. (Photo donated to the Collection by the Russell Munroe Collection. Walker Transportation Collection)

Steam Shovel

Not a steam roller, but still a very interesting. You certainly do not see something like this working on the "Big Dig" that is going on in Boston to submerge the Central Artery. This one is seen excavating for a new building on the campus of Northeastern University on Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts in 1941. Note that there is a Boston Elevated Railway Type 5 in the left background, behind the Sterling truck. (Photo by David R. Wood. Walker Transportation Collection)

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