MBTA FP-10s and leased GO Transit coaches lay over at South Station in Boston as they await the evening rush hour. This original MBTA paint scheme on these Paducah-rebuilt ex=GM&O F3s featured a p... (more)

Ancestral New Haven semaphores still guarded the junction at Groton, CT, in the summer of 1984, but replacements were under construction as Amtrak modernized the Shore Line. F40 212 was eastbound ... (more)

Late on a fall afternoon a trio of Boston & Maine GP9s roll train SPCP (Springfield, MA, to Newport, VT, via B&M/CP) north through Greenfield, MA, on the Connecticut River Line. This train usually... (more)

The early 1980s paint scheme left little doubt as to the identity of the operator of New York-Washington high speed trains. A set of Amtrak Metroliners raced south through North Elizabeth, NJ, en ... (more)

Late autumn color is still in the trees as Boston-bound Amtrak train 168 approaches the East Haven, CT, tunnels with the standard F40/Amfleet consist. The East Haven cut and tunnels were part of a... (more)

A trio of former New York Central RDCs running as a Poughkeepsie to Croton-Harmon shuttle for Metro North has just exited the Breakneck Ridge tunnel north of Cold Spring, NY, on a largely snowless... (more)

The trio of bright blue GP40-2s on the point of this Boston & Maine freight westbound at Greenfield, MA, will soon be working hard on the climb up the Berkshires to Hoosac Tunnel, which begins jus... (more)

On a late winter afternoon, an eastbound Boston & Maine freight coils through North Leominster, MA, on its way from Mechanicville, NY, to Portland, ME, behind a GP38-2/GP40-2/GP38-2 trio. New weld... (more)

Spring has come and the trees are beginning to leaf out along the Shore Line as Amtrak F40PH 208 heads up an eastbound Northeast Corridor train whose passengers have a nice view of Long Island Sou... (more)

Bygone days on the NEC- wood ties, GG1-powered passenger trains of heritage cars, and rubberized grade crossings.

Boston & Maine train WJCP (White River Jct. to Newport, VT) works upgrade through the woods on the upper Connecticut River line at Fairlee, VT, behind two B&M GP9s and a Canadian Pacific Century ... (more)

Between 1984 and 1988, the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad operated seasonal passenger service between a suburban Boston rapid transit stop (Braintree, MA) and Hyannis, using a pair of ex-New Haven GP... (more)

On a cold winter afternoon, a trio of Maine Central units are returning to Bangor after spending most of the day switching at the large paper mill in Bucksport. There is plenty of ice in the Pen... (more)

A Lowell-bound MBTA commuter train leaves downtown Boston behind as it accelerates north through Somerville, MA, on a fall afternoon. An FP-10 at the rear is pushing a set of depowered Budd RDCs.

MBTA 1013 was the only one of the agency's F40PHs that received the handsome maroon and gray color scheme that was briefly in use in the mid-1980s. It headed up a Fitchburg Line commuter train out... (more)