A pair of MBTA "all electric" PCCs prepare to depart from the Arborway loop for a trip to downtown Boston via Huntington Avenue. Twenty-five of Boston's 346 PCCs were of this design, in ... (more)

MBTA 1062 leads the Cape Flyer through Middleboro on it's southbound journey to Cape Cod and Hyannis. MBTA 1062 is painted in a unique Mass DOT paint scheme that it shares with 1056.

MBTA 2021 and Mass Coastal 2008 bookend two gondolas, all bound for MC's yard at Rochester. The train exits MBTA territory and proceeds onto MC here at "Bay" in Middleboro.

MBTA 904 sits on the siding in Middleboro with the Middleboro Extra. Behind 904 is MBTA 1056 and some coaches that Mass Coastal will bring to Rochester for work. 1056 is painted in a special Mass ... (more)

MBTA FP-10 1109 heads up a Lowell-Boston commuter local entering the station at Winchester, MA, on a summer afternoon. A trio of depowered RDCs accommodate the riders.

In the early 1980s the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority purchased six Burlington Northern GP9s for commuter service hauling depowered RDCs. Here MBTA 1925 enters Boston's North Station w... (more)

"High Speed" PCC: While the phrase High Speed may not be something commonly associated with a PCC Streetcar, the term as applied to this stretch of the MBTA red line on the... (more)

MBTA 4261 was the only one of the system's eight ex-PRR E8s to receive this solid gray paint job, earning it the nickname "Gray Ghost". It posed at Boston's South Station while awaiting ... (more)

As the sun drops low on a long summer evening, MBTA E8 4261 hustles a short Providence-Boston commuter local through Central Falls, RI. The 4261 was the only one of the MBTA's eight ex-PRR E-units... (more)

The MBTA Cape Flyer hustles past an assortment of cranberry bogs in Middleboro. MBTA 2032 is leading the train from Boston to Hyannis today.

Purple People Push-Pulls... perhaps a good way to describe the coming and going of these two MBTA MPI HSP46 locomotives at Boston South Station. 2024 is just pulling into Track 3, while sister 203... (more)

Boston South Station at the beginning of the afternoon peak, with F40PHM-2C #1027 about to depart from Track 6, while a MPI HSP46 #2026 waits its turn in the background on Track 11. Over on the le... (more)

MBTA 7538 was the only one of the agency's 14 ex-New Haven/Penn Central GP9s to receive the yellow/purple/gray "Easter egg" paint scheme. It awaited the evening rush hour at Boston's Sou... (more)

An inbound MBTA commuter train consisting of a set of depowered RDCs behind an FP-10 cab unit crosses the Charles River drawbridge and enters Boston's North Station. The MBTA's 19 FP-10s were form... (more)

These locomotives remind me of an armored vehicle from a Japanese cartoon.