On a cold winter morning at Boston's South Station, commuters who have just arrived from the suburbs behind MBTA FP-10 1109 stream towards the warmth of the concourse.

Bound for Grand Central, a former New Haven FL9 speeds south along the Penn Central Harlem Line near Hartsdale, NY, on a summer afternoon. By the early 1970s the original NH nose logos on some FL9... (more)

In the early and mid 1980s, the MBTA relied on a lot of secondhand equipment to keep things moving. Former BN/NP GP9 1921 headed up a train of RDC equipment that includes an ex-CP car at the East ... (more)

An MBTA commuter train behind an F40PH en route from Boston to Fitchburg, MA, accelerates west through East Somerville on a summer afternoon. Today the B&M freight bridge in the background is gone... (more)

A pair of ex-New Haven RDCs running as a Boston-Franklin, MA, commuter local smoke their way through the junction at Readville, MA, about 10 miles out of South Station. Two years after Penn Centra... (more)

On a bright fall day, nearly new MBTA F40PH-2C pushes an inbound Fitchburg Line train through Littleton, MA, on its way to Boston's North Station.

A single passenger waited on the platform and a late season snow was falling as MBTA F40PH 1014 eased its Boston-Attleboro (MA) train to a stop at suburban Canton Junction. Five years after Penn C... (more)

In 1983-84 the MBTA purchased six GP9s from the Burlington Northern for use on trains of depowered RDCs. MBTA 1922, built as Northern Pacific 286, was one of two that received this maroon and gray... (more)

As the evening rush hour begins, a Providence-bound Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station behind an ex-PRR E8. The empty space to the left had accommodated South Station's bag... (more)

Bound for Framingham, MA, a Penn Central commuter train departs Boston's South Station beneath a bank of semaphores that dated to the station's opening in 1899. An ex-PRR E8 leads former New Haven... (more)

A splash of sunshine found its way through the overhead structures at Boston's North Station to illuminate MBTA FP-10 1107 standing at the bumper after its arrival with a commuter train. The MBTA'... (more)

A Jersey Central GP40P pokes its nose out from under the trainshed of Newark's Penn Station as it departs with an outbound train whose first car is a private commuter club. The coming of Conrail ... (more)

A former Jersey Central GP40P now working for New Jersey Transit passes the clock tower of the old CNJ station at Elizabeth, NJ, as it heads up a Newark-Bay Head Junction commuter train on ex-PRR ... (more)

With a puff of Alco smoke, Canadian Pacific RS-10 8572 accelerates an outbound commuter train away from the stop at Valois, Quebec, en route from Montreal's Windsor Station to suburban Vaudreuil.

A Canadian Pacific evening rush hour commuter train out of Montreal's Windsor Station slows for the stop at Valois, Quebec, on the Lakeshore route, with candy-striped FP7 4073 up front.