The passengers waiting in the snow will soon welcome the warmth inside the cars as an MBTA Fitchburg-Boston local pulls into the station at Lincoln, MA. An F40PH is pushing on the rear of the shor... (more)

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)

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)

In Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Penn Central's CHICK Tower, formerly New Haven RR tower SS185, stood behind Northeastern University in what is now the general area of the MBTA's Ruggles station... (more)

The rush hour is over, the sun is setting, and this Fitchburg-bound MBTA commuter train has to itself the platforms at Boston's North Station.

An outbound MBTA commuter train rolls through the Hyde Park section of Boston on the Fairmount line behind an F40. At the time all trains on the MBTA's ex-New Haven lines took this alternate route... (more)

Late in the era of steam-heated passenger trains, MBTA E8 4264 pops off while waiting to depart Boston's South Station with a Framingham local.

During the year that Conrail was the contract operator of the MBTA's South Side commuter service, a couple Conrail-owned ex-NYC E8s usually supplemented the MBTA's own ex-PRR Es. On the final week... (more)

Four of the MBTA's 19 FP-10s were originally delivered with steam boilers for use with steam-heated ex-NH coaches, as in the case of this pair ready to depart Boston's South Station for Providence... (more)

Bound from South Station to Needham Heights, MA, with an evening rush hours train, the class unit of the MBTA's FP-10s splits the manual block semaphores at the junction at Forest Hills where Need... (more)

D&H Alco PA1 19 rests at Providence yard late in the day while on lease to the MBTA

A Delaware & Hudson PA, heading up a Boston-Framingham commuter train while on lease to the MBTA, smokes it up at CP 11 in Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany.