With a GP40-2 and two GP9s up front, Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) rolls past the shop lead at Billerica, MA, on its way to Boston via the MBTA Lowell line.

Blue GP9s congregate at Ayer, MA, as Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) behind three of them passes the single unit assigned to local freight AY-1. By this time Ayer tower her... (more)

The last Boston & Maine through trains between Boston and Mechanicville, NY, once the railroad's most important freight haul, were Delaware & Hudson connections AP-3 and AP-4. On a rainy afternoon... (more)

Before the current and much larger Amtrak/MBTA Route 128 station and parking garage were opened in 2000, this modest pseudo-Colonial structure built by the New Haven RR in 1965 served passengers t... (more)

During the 1983 season, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad utilized leased Bay Colony Alco switchers to power its trains. Here the last trip of the day on the Falmouth branch cruises past an ... (more)

Conrail piggyback train TV-6 has nearly completed its run from Indianapolis to Boston as it pulls down the lead into Beacon Park Yard behind a C30-7 and two EMDs.

With a puff of smoke, MBTA GP9 7539 accelerates its train out of Boston's South Station at rush hour. Both the Geep and the coaches trailing it are of New Haven heritage. The locomotive would soon... (more)

The quiet of a long summer evening in Hoocksett, NH, is momentarily disturbed by the evening MBTA train between Boston and Concord, NH, over the Boston & Maine. This service ran under a one-year g... (more)

I don't know whether there was a special group on board or the crew was just feeling festive, but this edition of the Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited saluted the Christmas season as ... (more)

Following a February 1978 blizzard that dumped over two feet of snow in the Boston area, the Boston & Maine assigned locomotives to pilot lightweight RDC consists to prevent derailments at ice-pac... (more)

The MBTA's first F40PH seemed to be a fitting subject for my one thousandth photo on this site. MBTA 1000 was on its way out of Boston's South Station at rush hour with a string of ex-New Haven co... (more)

With the Fort Point Channel drawbridge in the background, a nearly new MBTA FP-10 and a string of leased GO Transit coaches depart South Station for the suburbs during the evening rush hour. The ... (more)

Working the South Station switch job, the crew of Amtrak RS3 117 carefully pushes the equipment of an outbound Northeast Corridor train from the Southampton Street yard towards a platform at South... (more)

A couple of U18Bs bracket a U36B/slug set as a crew switches at Mulberry.