Pushing to Boston. Flag stop on a quiet morning, 20 minutes from Boston North Station.

Snaking into Town. Just before the draw bridge, marina buildings shroud the tracks.

Train 421 from North Station to Wachusett entering the low level platform station on Track 1 at Ayer.

MBTA 1136 leads a Middleboro Extra south through Bridgewater, bound for Middleboro with assorted equipment.

Well Done, Rochester MassDOT 1137, a recently-rebuilt GP40MC spends the night in Lincoln after frying a traction motor and being set off on the siding. This unit has only been in service f... (more)

Inbound over the draw, an overhead-counterweight built in 1911. It's a spectacular summer morning in the harbor!

Midday at Readville MBTA's Readville layover yard midday with freshly-rebuilt GP40MC #1137.

MBTA train 1109 crosses one of the two draw bridges over the Charles River as they depart Boston's North Station with a rebuilt GP40 leading. On the left is part of Tower A, which once controlled ... (more)

Train 415 from North Station to Wachusett approaching Patterson Road RR Crossing in Shirley. GP40MC 1126 had LED lights installed for both the headlight and ditch lights.

Soldiering On MBTA 1309 notches it up at Tower A with a thoroughly-rusted GP40MC leader. This geep was built almost 50 years ago as a CN GP40LW, and ever since its overhaul to passenger sp... (more)

The evening weekday commuter rush is in full swing as an Inbound and Outbound Keolis move meet just north of Tower A and Boston North Station. The two moves, both headed up by classic MBTA motive ... (more)

Summer Cape Commuting. On Sunday, June 27, 2021, MBTX 1136 (Mass Dot, GP40MC) leads First Class Club Car MBTX 225 (BTC-1C, Pullman, 1978-79) and 5 more coaches with a trailing locomotive ac... (more)

Having just crossed Cohasset Narrows, MBTA 1136 leads the Cape Flyer into Wareham as an almost-full moon rises. The train has just departed Buzzards Bay and is bound for Boston South Station. 1136... (more)

Mega-Layover A view of the MBTA's Readville Yard from about 200 feet up. In the foreground is 1136, one of the MBTA's Southside "Readville Switchers" next to a few Commuter Rail sets. In t... (more)

"Area 52" An MBTA test train sits next to the MBTA Rochester shop, a locomotive shop in Rochester, just north of Cape Cod. MBTA often sends locomotives down here to be serviced a... (more)