Readville Switcher MBTA GP40MC-3 #1129 switches out the Readville layover facility in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston.

Minuteman in New Haven Territory An MBTA OCS is seen looping before shoving into South Station, such that the locomotive, B&M "Minuteman" heritage F40PH-3C #1030, will be leading... (more)

Theatre Car... On a Commuter Rail? After pausing for some train traffic, the MBTA's new theatre car continues leading the Office Car Special's shove to South Station, where it'll head to R... (more)

Catch it While You Can MBTA heritage F40 #1030 shoves the Office Car Special over the Dry Loop at Widett Circle. At one point, this site was a common place for truckers to park to rest, bu... (more)

Mayflower on the Loop An MBTA Office Car Special uses the Dry Loop in Southie to spin its train before heading south to Rhode Island. MBB coach #535 is the most recent addition to this tra... (more)

History Repeats Itself MBTA heritage GP40MC-3 #1129 leads the Readville Switcher equipment move long-hood forward along the Dorchester Branch. This unit wears the "Cranberry" paint scheme,... (more)

2025 In Review Two big developments in New England passenger railroading in 2025 have been the NextGen Acela trainsets and MBTA's heritage units. Here we see them both. On the left, an app... (more)

Black Friday As part of its routine acceptance testing, recently-rebuilt MBTA F40PH-3C #1071 just so happened to go out for a round of cab signal testing on Black Friday. Heading west on t... (more)

Nothing fancy on this former NH unit, drilling passenger cars in Amtrak's early years.

”Morning at the North Terminus” — A legacy Acela train set cautiously crawls along the network of tracks leading into Boston’s South Station.

“The Corner at Fields Corner” — One of the MBTA Red Line’s 1700 Series sets rounds a curve into Fields Corner Station along the Ashmont Line.

Rainy Day on the Middleboro Main Line With mere minutes before its crew outlawed, the Middleboro Extra rolls through JFK/UMass with PNLX 2107, one of two Precision Locomotive Leasers on MB... (more)

Local Legend The Readville Switcher is the name of the equipment move that moves locomotives and coaches between the MBTA Commuter Rail's north and south sides. Every weeknight (and Sunday... (more)

The Past or the Future? RSTX 1002 is the first of 6 F40PH-4Cs leased to the MBTA by Rolling Stock Solutions, a Boston-based startup that remanufactures ex-Amtrak F40s to offer commuter rai... (more)

F(reight)40s An MBTA extra works its way up the Dorchester Branch, dropping continuous welded rail (CWR) on Track 1. A few years from now, the MBTA will convert the Fairmount Line to a pse... (more)