Less than two weeks before the coming of Amtrak would put it out of its misery, Penn Central train 427 rolls west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. A single E8 and a snack bar ... (more)
A trio of Conrail C30-7As roll west through Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany with piggybacker TV-9 out of Boston's Beacon Park Yard. This was once four-track territory.
In the mid-1980s, three-unit sets of six-axle GEs were the usual road freight power on Conrail's former Boston & Albany line, but weekend power balancing often led to doubling up. Here six big GEs... (more)
Amtrak's westbound Bay State, the onetime "Inland Route" train between Boston and Washington via Springfield and Hartford, speeds through the Wellesley Square, MA, MBTA commuter station on a summe... (more)
With light snow falling, Conrail trailer train TV-9 makes its way west through Wellesley, MA, behind a string of GE diesels led by C30-7As 6574. The C30s were very common on the former Boston & Al... (more)