The new Amtrak running with handed down Penn Central power

Freight from Middleboro heads north to Framingham. The train had to switchback at Attleboro so it had a caboose at each end of the train.

Train number 8, The Murray Hill is 40 minutes from Boston and hitting full stride with a light train even though it is pulling a grade. On this cloudy bright Sunday afternoon few of us New Haven R... (more)

The first F40 PH in a break in mode with HEP unit following. It took me a long time to warm up to these locomotives. Now that they are almost all gone from Amtrak I feel like they were ok after al... (more)

Alco powered work train performing preliminary right of way work in preparation for the rebuilding of the Boston to Washington corridor.

Local freight slows for grade crossing. Brakeman stands on front to observe the condition of flangeways. This is the first train on the line since the accumulation of much snow and ice.

Power for the Pariots train waiting on the run around track. The GP 9s will soon hook onto the string of coaches and push back to the Stadium at Foxboro. Then train will load up and head for Provi... (more)

Patriots Football Fan train from Providence on the Framingham Secondary. Some of these football specials ran up to 16 cars in length.

Clean RS3's on the headpin of a quarter mile rail relay train. Shot is of the first rail replacement before the Acela upgrade in the 90's.

Shot at Dusk. The last year of Turbo Trains at Mansfield Tower. The tower was razed almost the same time that the Turbos were taken off. The tower was replaced by remote control. The turbos were n... (more)

A Northeast Regional heads through Mansfield, hot on the heels of the MBTA Patriots train.

Acela Express flies through Mansfield increasing speed to 150 mph

A geep and E unit combination. Each one doing his part fo AMTRAK.

Here is something to chew on. GP9s in high speed shorline passenger service to Hew York. These geeps are performing like E units. By this time AMTRAK had takenover PC passenger service but had not... (more)