The Pinsly organization, like many shortline holding companies, frequently swapped locomotives between its railroads. That's how Frankfort & Cincinnati S4 106 moved from its home in Kentucky to Ma... (more)

Having departed from the Arborway terminal and ducked under the New Haven RR mainline, a pair of MBTA PCCs venture out onto South Street in Jamaica Plain on their way downtown via Huntington Avenu... (more)

With the usual GP9 up front, Boston & Maine train WA-1 parallels the Naugatuck River in Naugatuck, CT, southbound on Metro North's Waterbury branch. At the time this Waterbury-based local served c... (more)

A quartet of Boston & Maine GP9s lead train EDSA (east Deerfield to Salem, MA) past the Tufts University campus in Medford, MA. Most of the cars will be set out in the B&M's Boston freight yard in... (more)

Between 1984 and 1988 the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad operated seasonal excursion service between Hyannis and a Boston transit connection at Braintree. During the first season, CC&H GP9 1210 led a... (more)

During the summer of 1983, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad operated with borrowed Bay Colony Railroad Alco switchers, before it had locomotives of its own. Bay Colony S4 1061 with a CC&H t... (more)

On a perfect fall day, a pair of Boston & Maine GP9s ease train EDCO (East Deerfield, MA, to Concord, NH) through the double-to-single track transition at Willows East interlocking in Littleton, M... (more)

Chopped-nose Maine Central GP7 590 leads a pair of Boston & Maine GP9s on train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) southbound at Brattleboro, VT. The B&M Connecticut River Line tra... (more)

As the sun drops low, an evening MBTA rush hour train of ex-New Haven coaches behind an F40PH passes the former NH Dover Street coach yard in South Boston, now used for rapid transit (Red Line) ca... (more)

Departing Boston, an MBTA commuter train led by an F40PH crosses the Fort Point Channel drawbridge just outside South Station. This classic bascule bridge has since been replaced by a fixed span a... (more)

The late afternoon sun flashes off the nose of Boston & Maine GP9 1709 as it and a partner lead train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) down the Connecticut Valley at South Deerfi... (more)

On an fall morning, Boston & Maine GP18s 1754 and 1850 and two GP9s roll west through Shirley, MA, with train BASE (Bangor, ME, to Rotterdam Jct., NY, via MEC/B&M). It was unusual by this time to ... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, MBTA E8 4254 and its outbound rush hour train pause at Auburndale station in Newton, MA, on a Boston-Framingham run. The locomotive is ex-PRR, the coaches ex-NH, and th... (more)

As dusk approaches, the setting sun casts a red glow over downtown Boston while an outbound Amtrak train behind a pair of F40s makes its way towards Back Bay Station, the first stop for all Amtra... (more)