CSX In Wellesley... In 2021? CSX B723 rolls through Wellesley Square with an empty welded rail train from the MBTA. CSX B723 is usually the Westboro switcher, but today, the crew had to ru... (more)

Cutting Through the Snow On February 19, 2021, I braved the snowstorm to get some drone shots of local commuter trains at Wellesley Farms. This shot was taken around 11 in the morning afte... (more)

An outbound commuter train to Worcester slows to stop at Wellesley Square on a cold and brisk January afternoon. The Worcester Line is one of 5 routes on the MBTA network operating on weekends as ... (more)

The westbound Lake Shore Limited thunders through Wellesley Square station and past the Wellesley post office on its way west towards Albany and Chicago. 3 units lead elephant style, with the 3rd ... (more)

Amtrak Extra at the Square Amtrak 834, a PTC test train makes its presence known at Wellesley Square with a late 90s K5LA. This extra was headed to Boston to test PTC on the Downeaster r... (more)

On a misty spring morning, a short Conrail freight behind a smoking SD35, a U25B, and a deadheading switcher rolls west through Wellesley Farms, MA, as an MBTA Framingham-Boston commuter train rec... (more)

Just a couple months into Conrail, train BOEL (Boston-Elkhart) out of Beacon Park Yard follows Amtrak's Lake Shore west on the former Boston & Albany, leaning into the curve at Wellesley Farms, MA... (more)

Light Power at the Square MBTA rail extra returns as light power from Grafton. A few hours prior, this train dropped off some rails on flat cars for the Grafton and Upton extension to Mi... (more)

Amtrak's state-supported Bay State, the Boston-Washington "Inland Route" train via Springfield and Hartford, swings through a curve at Wellesley, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. This ... (more)

One of Amtrak's first state-supported trains was the Bay State, providing service from Boston to Washington via Springfield and Hartford (the "Inland Route"). Starting up two weeks after... (more)

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)