Pan Am train BO-1 with MEC GP40s 381 and 345 has just crossed the Mystic River and is on the home stretch to tying down in Somerville on the Willey Track. BO-1 worked Peabody today and dumped all ... (more)

Pan Am train BO-1 with MEC GP40s 381 and 345 has just crossed the Mystic River and is on the home stretch to tying down in Somerville on the Willey Track. BO-1 worked Peabody today and dumped all ... (more)

Fresh back from Motive Power Industries in Boise, Idaho, the first of several rebuilds stretches her legs around Boston Engine Terminal. Recently, the MBTA's Fiscal Management Control Board (FMCB)... (more)

Boston based local BO-1 shoves their train East past the MBTA layover yard, Yard 14, outside of Boston Engine Terminal. Due to shrinking yards and trackspace in Boston proper, the crew had to wye ... (more)

Boston Engine Terminal is quite the facility. Everything from routine preventive maintenance to traction motor and truck replacement can be performed in house. The facility built in 1995 shares th... (more)

One of the forty MPI HSP46 locomotives owned by the MBTA undergoes routine maintenance at Boston Engine Terminal. Photo taken with permission, appropriate safety PPE was worn.

This was once a common sight across the country, now rare: a classic EMD switcher working an urban yard. Boston & Maine SW9 1231 shuttled cars at Mystic Junction in East Somerville, MA, on a sprin... (more)

An MBTA commuter train behind an F40PH en route from Boston to Fitchburg, MA, accelerates west through East Somerville on a summer afternoon. Today the B&M freight bridge in the background is gone... (more)

At Mystic Junction in Somerville, MA, a Boston & Maine freight gets underway out of the railroad's Boston freight terminal behind a GP18/GP9 duo wearing their original "bluebird" paint s... (more)

Pan Am Railway's Office Car Special races a MBTA orange line as they both head toward Boston. The OCS is coming off the former Boston and Maine Western Route and soon will arrive at Boston Engine ... (more)

The B&M Lives!

Well...just barely. BO-1 is the last Boston based local freight for B&M successor Pan Am Railways. Here they can be seeing working Boston Sand and Gravel between F... (more)

Saying Goodbye to Boston

CSX's last freight train in the city of Boston says goodbye for what may be the last time. The predecessors of the Boston and Albany began serving their n... (more)

On the previous night, DOBO rolled over a spot of wide gauge causing the rear engine and three loaded sand cars to derail. During the following day, BO-1 was utilized to rerail the train in former... (more)

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)

On the West side of Boston Engine Terminal, a lone GP38-2 idles with two Russell plows and a flanger. Recently, the Governor of Massachusetts, Charlie Baker, visited the shop to look over the snow... (more)