It's April, and the Long Island Sound beach at Rocky Neck in East Lyme, CT, is empty, but that won't be the case in a couple months. Meanwhile, Amtrak F40PH 309 hurries along with a westbound Nort... (more)

An MBTA FP-10 and a string of leased GO Transit coaches await their departure from Lowell, MA, for Boston. The little machine to their left was a British Leyland railbus that ran for a short time ... (more)

Seven assorted Boston & Maine and Conrail diesels led by B&M GP38-2 206 head up a loaded unit coal train at Gardner, MA, headed from western Pennsylvania to a generating station at Bow, NH. Pooled... (more)

Delivered by Budd in February, 1935, the Boston & Maine’s Pioneer Zephyr was the third North American streamliner to be built, preceded by the Union Pacific’s M10000 and the Burlington’s <... (more)

Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) pauses for orders at the White River Junction station before heading south on the Connecticut River Line. Two B&M GP9s and a... (more)

Boston-Chicago piggybacker TV-9 is underway west though the suburbs on Conrail's former Boston & Albany line at Wellesley, MA. This was once four-track territory to accommodate commuters. The trio... (more)

A GE trio comprised of one of Conrail's ten humpbacked C32-8s and a pair of C30-7As is almost done with its work as their eastbound intermodal train eases down the lead track into Beacon Park Yard... (more)

Three-car trains of PCCs were a common rush hour sight on the MBTA's Boston College/Commonwealth Avenue line (now the MBTA B Line) in the late 60s/early 70s. The lead car on this train wears a sho... (more)

One of the double-ended PCCs that came to Boston secondhand from Dallas glides beneath the Orange Line el structure as it departs the Arborway terminal in Jamaica Plain, headed for downtown Boston... (more)

Carrying bridge traffic moving between Conrail at Rotterdam Jct., NY, and the Maine Central at Portland, ME, Boston & Maine train SEPO-B rolls through Lowell, MA, behind a GP40-2 trio. The modest ... (more)

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, a lineup of Boston & Maine RDCs await the Monday morning rush hour inside the roundhouse at Boston Engine Terminal. The B&M had the largest fleet of Budds with 109 car... (more)

Boston commuter trains of the mid-1970s featured an assortment of second- and third-hand equipment that the MBTA had acquired from Penn Central and the Boston & Maine. A minimally repainted ex-PC ... (more)

On a crisp winter afternoon, Amtrak F40PH 211 and the standard NEC Amfleet consist rattles the 1892 station at Canton Junction, MA, with a southbound train out of Boston. The scene is very differe... (more)

An MBTA commuter train on the coastal Rockport/Newburyport line glides along the tidal North River at Salem, MA. Equipment is an FP-10 cab unit with a set of depowered RDC coaches. Come the weeken... (more)

The MBTA's first F40PH clatters across the Conrail diamond at Walpole station with a Boston- Franklin train. When Walpole station was built in 1883, this was a crossing of the New York & New Engla... (more)