An eastbound Conrail piggyback train that is about to terminate at the Beacon Park Yard intermodal terminal in the Allston section of Boston makes its way along yard lead adjacent to the Massachus... (more)

The crew of a Conrail GP38 makes a switching move at Nevins Yard in Framingham, MA, while an eastbound freight led by a B23-7 that is terminating here waits for them to clear in order to yard the ... (more)

Amid the fall foliage, the crew of a Boston & Maine SW9 wait for the signal to enter the East Deerfield, MA, yard off the "loop" connection to the Connecticut River line.

As a track crew attends to a switch frog on splendid fall day, Boston & Maine train SPCP (Springfield, MA, to Newport, VT, via B&M/CP) departs the B&M's major yard at East Deerfield, MA, to contin... (more)

The Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited gets underway out of South Station. It's headed for Albany and its Chicago connection beneath the semaphores that were a distinctive part of South... (more)

Light snow is falling as an MBTA FP-10 and its train of depowered RDCs await the next departure from Boston's South Station.

An MBTA commuter train that has just departed the station at Haverhill, MA, steps across the Merrimack River on its way to Boston's North Station on ancestral Boston & Maine trackage. An FP-10 fro... (more)

Between 1981 and 1984 the Boston & Maine joined with the Central Vermont to provide expedited overnight piggyback service between Boston and St. Albans, VT (as a transfer point for Montreal). Mark... (more)

Wearing a fresh coat of bright Imron blue paint, Boston & Maine GP9 1702 and the buggy assigned to local freight AY-1 swing around the wye at Ayer, MA, during a switching move.

Against a background of 19th century mill buildings, Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) crosses the Connecticut River from Holyoke into Chicopee, MA, late on a... (more)

In March, 1983, the Boston and Maine rebuilt former Union Pacific GP9 134 into a road slug, numbered it 100, and put it to work between GP40-2’s 300 and 301. Less than two years later the trio los... (more)

Their corridor trips up from New Haven completed, leased Bombardier LRC locomotive 39 and Amtrak F40PH 208 compare profiles at Boston's South Station. The F40s had a long life with Amtrak, the LRC... (more)

One of the MBTA's double-ended PCCs (acquired secondhand from Dallas) glides along South Street in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston on its way from downtown to the Arborway terminal. In old Bos... (more)

Passengers line up on the platform of Amtrak's Route 128 station in suburban Westwood, MA, as their Washington-bound train enters behind F40PH 208 while a northbound discharges on the adjacent tra... (more)

Boston Terminal Tower 1 and ranks of semaphores dating to 1899 glow in the night at Boston's South Station. A major reconstruction of the station and its approaches beginning two years after this ... (more)