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)

A few minutes out of Hoboken on their way to the suburbs, a set of 51-year-old former Lackawanna MUs now working for New Jersey Transit emerges from the west portal of the Bergen Hill tunnel in Je... (more)

A Penn Central commuter train powered by a New York Central RS-3 makes its station stop at Newtonville, MA, en route from Framingham to Boston on a summer morning. In later years the NYC's passeng... (more)

A six-car set of Canadian National MUs bound from Gare Centrale in Montreal to suburban Deux Montangnes enters the station at Val Royal, Quebec, on a summer afternoon. These cars were retired when... (more)

A six-car set of Canadian National MUs lays over at Deux Montangnes, Quebec, the end of CN's 17-mile-long suburban electric zone, before returning to downtown Montreal. CN bought 18 of these DC-po... (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)

Like a sparking, clanking, riveted dinosaur, a former New York Central P2b electric leads an inbound Penn Central commuter train through the now-closed 138th Street station in the Bronx. Ex-NH FL9... (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)

Two of the three centercab electrics built by GE in 1950 for Canadian National's Montreal-Deux Montagnes suburban line roll through the former Monkland station outside Montreal with an evening rus... (more)

As the sun drops low on a summer evening, a pair of Canadian Pacific RDCs running as a Montreal-Vaudreuil commuter local stop at the old wooden station at Dorval, Quebec. Built with living quarter... (more)

Up until the arrival of the M2 class modern MUs in the early 1970s, the New Haven's electrified New Canaan branch had the look of a country interurban in off-peak hours as a single car covered the... (more)

A set of former New Haven Pullman-Standard MUs running as a Penn Central Stamford-Grand Central local swings into the station at Rye, NY, on a winter day. The unique triangular catenary, since rep... (more)

The faint trace of a New York Central cigar band logo on the nose of otherwise unlettered Conrail E8 4324 marks it as one of the ex-NYC E-units that were renumbered and equipped with PRR-style cab... (more)

A Jersey Central GP40P that has newly become the property of Conrail leads a Newark-Bay Head commuter train into Long Branch, NJ. The green and blue former Burlington Northern (nee GN) coaches beh... (more)