The Graveyard Shift In the fall months, when falling leaves cause wheel slips, the MBTA runs special trains to remove them from the rails. In recent years, this has meant a laser train on ... (more)

Breaking It In Rolling Stock Solutions is a Boston-based startup that rebuilds and leases former Amtrak F40s in a partnership with CAD Industries and Metro-East Industries. Its launch cust... (more)

Teamwork Two GP40MCs being used as one on a weekend train to Newburyport. 1139 has a strong prime mover but a dead HEP generator, while 1137 has a dead prime mover but a functional HEP uni... (more)

MassDOT Blue The Readville Switcher equipment shuttle returns from the BET with MassDOT 1137 leading long-hood forward.

An inbound commuter rail train is passing Tower A and heading into North Station with Massdot painted 1125 shoving.

Outbound Train 63 to Rockport is leaving North Station just ahead of Reading bound Train 1263. The 2003-built Leonard Zakim Bridge looms over the abandoned 1931 built Boston & Maine Signal Tower A... (more)

Lowell bound train has just left North Station as they cross the 94 year old Boston & Maine drawbridges at Tower A

Widecab Geeps After Amtrak needed its "Corridor Clipper" geometry car more than usual with the testing of the NextGen Acela trains, and the MBTA's own geometry cars not done in time, CSX l... (more)

MBTA Commuter Rail train 217 is seen departing North Station for Haverhill with heritage-painted 1129 leading.

Two commuter rail trains with matching MPI locomotives are crossing the draw bridge at Tower A simultaneously as they depart North Station in Boston.

AMTK 108 in the "Phase VI" Heritage Scheme leads a Downeaster out of North Station. Just two weeks later the engine would catch fire while still on the Downeaster line.

Caboose in Cambridge On the early morning of July 29th, 2024, the Northside Work Extra shoved through Cambridge with a string of MassDOT ballast cars in tow.

Arriving in Harvard set of 01800's built by Bombardier roll into the station. At one point this was the end of the red line until the Alewife extension in the 1980's was completed.

Cambridge Commuter Rail. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) GP40MC no. 1128 (GMD, 1973-1975) is seen leading a northbound commuter train out of North Station, with the Za... (more)

Lechmeres. As MBTA 3815 (Type 8, Ansaldo-Breda, 1998-2007) made the stop at the new Lechmere Station in Cambridge, Massachusetts on January 14, 2023, careful framing brings the location of ... (more)