One of the last two wigwag crossing signals on the Boston & Maine was located at Sanbornville, NH, on the Conway branch. On this summer day it was activated by train DO-1, the Dover-Ossipee (NH) g... (more)

A GP9 duo leads Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) south through Greenfield, MA, past an old lineside phone box from the pre-radio era. The 1800-series number ... (more)

B&M powered Canadian Pacific freight 904 is heading for White River Junction. The lead unit 4266 has recently had an RDC logo applied to the nose By BMRHS Members. This F7 is long in the tooth an... (more)

On a late winter morning, a single passenger awaits an inbound MBTA Haverhill-Boston commuter train at the modest station at Ballardvale, MA. The combination of a Boston & Maine GP7 and depowered ... (more)

A southbound Delaware & Hudson Penn Division detour train enters the Southern Toer line off of the Jefferson Connection at Lanesboro, PA. Following two ex-Illinois Terminal SD39’s and two Pittsb... (more)

Boston & Maine SW1 1122 had celebrated its 30th birthday but a recent paint job made it look younger as it awaited its next job in the B&M's East Cambridge, MA, intermodal yard. In 2017 the 1122 i... (more)

Late on a fall afternoon a trio of Boston & Maine GP9s roll train SPCP (Springfield, MA, to Newport, VT, via B&M/CP) north through Greenfield, MA, on the Connecticut River Line. This train usually... (more)

The trio of bright blue GP40-2s on the point of this Boston & Maine freight westbound at Greenfield, MA, will soon be working hard on the climb up the Berkshires to Hoosac Tunnel, which begins jus... (more)

On a late winter afternoon, an eastbound Boston & Maine freight coils through North Leominster, MA, on its way from Mechanicville, NY, to Portland, ME, behind a GP38-2/GP40-2/GP38-2 trio. New weld... (more)

Boston & Maine train WJCP (White River Jct. to Newport, VT) works upgrade through the woods on the upper Connecticut River line at Fairlee, VT, behind two B&M GP9s and a Canadian Pacific Century ... (more)

A pair of maroon and yellow GP7s accelerate Boston & Maine train JS-2 (White River Jct., VT, to Springfield, MA) south out of Claremont Junction, NH, on the Connecticut River Line. The train has j... (more)

One of Alco's rarest locomotives was the 800 hp S-5 switcher. Only seven were built, and the Boston & Maine had six of them. Sharp-looking B&M 863 pushed cars over the Boston freight yard hump at ... (more)

In the mid-1960s, the Boston & Maine's Connecticut River Line was dominated by GP7s, RS-3s, and the railroad's remaining F-units. Train SJ-1 (Springfield, MA, to White River Junction, VT) passed t... (more)

Boston & Maine SW9 1226 waits between assignments in the yard at Lowell, Massachusetts.

A pair of Boston & Maine GP39-2s in Guilford gray and orange are in charge of train MELA (Mechanicville, NY, to Lawrence, MA), eastbound at Ayer, MA, on a spring afternoon