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)

A sunlit inbound MBTA Commuter Rail train from Haverhill approaches the shadowy Melrose/Cedar Park station on a brisk January morning. Today would mark the last day of weekend service on most Comm... (more)

With a puff of smoke, MBTA GP9 7539 accelerates its train out of Boston's South Station at rush hour. Both the Geep and the coaches trailing it are of New Haven heritage. The locomotive would soon... (more)

The former Boston & Maine roundhouse and service tracks comprising the Boston Engine Terminal stretch out behind an MBTA commuter train incoming from Lowell behind an FP-10. All of the railroad bu... (more)

Boston based local BO-1 shoves their train East past the MBTA layover yard, Yard 14, outside of Boston Engine Terminal. Due to shrinking yards and trackspace in Boston proper, the crew had to wye ... (more)

New Haven Heritage. Although the engines are sadly no longer painted in the McGuinnis tribute scheme, CT Rail Train 6401 (CNDX 6697, EMD GP40-3H leading) finds some of the remaining vintage railro... (more)

In the early 1980s the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority purchased six Burlington Northern GP9s for commuter service hauling depowered RDCs. Here MBTA 1925 enters Boston's North Station w... (more)

MBTA 7538 was the only one of the agency's 14 ex-New Haven/Penn Central GP9s to receive the yellow/purple/gray "Easter egg" paint scheme. It awaited the evening rush hour at Boston's Sou... (more)

Six years after Amtrak concluded an unsuccessful evaluation of Bombardier's LRC equipment, a VIA LRC set showed up in Boston's South station as part of a high speed rail demonstration sponsored by... (more)

"MassDOT PTC Test Train at South Station" One of two MBTA F40's painted in MassDOT's special paint scheme sits at the point of a PTC Test train in Boston South Station. The train would hea... (more)

A CT-Rail qualifying test train with recently rebuilt 6694 shoves into Springfield, MA. Crews are getting prepared for the upcoming commuter service on the Hartford Line

The first National Railway Equipment-rebuilt Connecticut Department of Transporation/CT Rail GP40-2H has returned and officially debuted the new paint scheme that will be replacing the former New ... (more)

The evening rush hour is over as an MBTA Stoughton-Boston local coils off the Stoughton Branch onto the Northeast Corridor mainline at Canton Jct., MA. An FP-10 cab unit that began life as a GM&O... (more)

The bell clangs and ditch lights flash as cab car 1634 leads an inbound commuter on to Track 4 at North Station late in the afternoon.