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 l... (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)

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 the last... (more)

A long string of piggybacks follows the GE trio (U33C/C32-8/C32-8) up front as Conrail train TV-6 rattles the center of Ashland, MA, on the former Boston & Albany line. The building in the backgro... (more)

The evening rush hour is over as an MBTA Stoughton-Boston local coils off the Stoughton Branch onto the Northeast Corridor mainline at Canton Jct., MA. An FP-10 cab unit that began life as a GM&O... (more)

An MBTA Fitchburg-Boston local comprised of an FP-10 cab unit and depowered RDC coaches accelerates away from the station stop on Boston & Maine trackage at Ayer, MA, on a summer morning.

On a winter afternoon, Boston & Maine GP40-2 311 is on the point of a three-unit EMD lashup on northbound train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) as it approaches the B&M's East Deerfield, M... (more)

A trio of bright blue GP9s lead Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) past a frozen pond at Westford, MA, on the B&M's Stony Brook Branch.

On a cold winter day, Amtrak F40 208 is ready to depart Boston's South Station with a Washington-bound corridor train. A complete reconstruction of the station was imminent, and today high level p... (more)