On January 6th, 2024 an MBTA/Keolis work extra moved B&M RDC-2 #6213 and B&M milk car 1930 from Boston Engine terminal to the former shop complex at Iron Horse Park in North Billerica. The Budd RD... (more)
A thirty-minute late Amtrak Downeaster 696 is seen headed toward Boston from Brunswick, Maine just after passing Wilmington Junction and going onto the Wildcat Branch. This section of track connec... (more)
Pan Am Boston local BO-1 is seen crossing over at Wilmington Interlocking on the old Boston & Maine New Hampshire Route. The job ran light to Lawrence to retrieve 20 loads.
NPCU 406 painted in the Amtrak Phase II paint and built from an EMD F40 brings up the markers on Train 683 (Downeaster) passing through Wilmington, MA in a snowstorm. This line is the former Bosto... (more)
Amtrak Train 683 (Downeaster) is seen passing through Wilmington, MA in a snowstorm with a snow-covered Christmas wreath. This line is the former Boston & Maine New Hampshire Route. ... (more)
It may not be McGinnis scheme, but it is still blue F units in 2019 on former Boston & Maine trackage, which is why photographing this train really does not get old. On a raw November afternoon, t... (more)
With confirmation of the Pan AM Office Car Special running into Boston and permission to use an access road to stage my vintage American LaFrance fire engine, I could not resist a photo op of the ... (more)
This was once one of the most common rail sights across the country, a plain-vanilla GP7 or GP9 heading up a local freight trailed by a caboose. Not any more! Boston & Maine GP7 eased local freigh... (more)
MBTA's GP40-1 shoves a work train on the Wildcat Branch to the work site at Wilmington Jct. The train consists of 6 new MassDOT ballast hoppers, a snow flanger and a work caboose leading the way.
