During the MBTA's short-lived service extension to Gardner, MA, GP9 1925 (ex-BN/NP) leads a train of depowered RDCs making the turn back to Boston. Note that the first two Budds are ex-CP cars al... (more)

Pan Am Railways EDPO is seen departing Gardner Yard after setting off two cuts of cars for Providence & Worcester Railroad.

Like The Old Days: NS autorack train 28W-02 (with the Pan Am ED-9 crew) puts their outbound train from the P&W together in the Gardner, MA Yard. This is an as-needed autorack train, this time bein... (more)

The Fresh Paint Smell! On a brisk MLK day, I find myself the Pan Am Southern/Providence and Worcester yard in Gardner, MA to photograph the “latest and greatest” from Pan Am. Here we see Pan Am tr... (more)

A rare Saturday move by P&W leaving Gardner yard

Eastbound Boston & Maine train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) rolls through the center of Gardner, MA, behind a GP40-2/GP38-2 duo.

A rebuilt NS 4208 (AC44C6M) - formerly GE Dash 9-44CW 8967 - barely a month old charges through Gardner leading PAS 23k while Providence & Worcester's GRWO waits for the passing train.

Pan AM local ED-8 switches the yard at Gardner. in the foreground is an autorack car filled with burned-out vehicles from a recent unfortunate fire. All the vehicles and the railcar are a total lo... (more)

With switching the B&M interchange and a coffee run completed, the crew of the Providence & Worcester's Gardner-Worcester (MA) freight boards GP38-2 2006 and prepares to get underway south.

On a fine fall afternoon, a Maine Central GP38, a Boston & Maine GP38-2, and a B&M GP40-2 head up a westbound freight near Gardner, MA, on the B&M Fitchburg Division mainline.

An Ayer Relief Crew takes an ED-9 extra as they switch in Gardner, MA

On September 14th, 2016, Providence & Worcester Dash 8-39BE 3908 and Dash 8-40BW 4005 lead train GRWO-14 (Gardner to Worcester) through Gardner, Massachusetts. This local arrived in Gardner with ... (more)

In the mid-1980s the MBTA purchased six GP9s from the Burlington Northern for use on trains of depowered RDCs that did not require locomotive HEP. Still wearing GN green, MBTA 1921, a onetime NP u... (more)

An abandoned mill building looms over the tracks at Gardner, MA, as Maine Central GP38 260 leads a Boston & Maine GP38-2 and a B&M GP40-2 on the point of train BASE, a Bangor, ME, to Rotterdam Jun... (more)

Three Maine Central U-Boats, all acquired secondhand, will be working uphill as they depart Gardner, MA, with Boston & Maine train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC). Lead unit ... (more)