A westbound Boston & Maine freight out of Portland headed by GP38-2 204 steps across the Merrimack River at Haverhill, MA. The photo was taken from a parallel highway bridge.

Boston & Maine GP40-2 304 heads up train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC) as it accelerates east after making a setout at Lowell, MA.

A 1941-built car from Boston's first order of PCCs leads a pair outbound on the Riverside Line past the landmark Chestnut Hill Waterworks building.

The end of PCC operation was near on the MBTA's C Line (Cleveland Circle/Beacon Street) as this pair departed the Coolidge Corner stop in Brookline on an inbound run.

Canton Viaduct was built by the Boston & Providence Rail Road in 1835 to support the tiny locomotives of the day, and now, well past its 175th birthday, it carries Acelas. Back in 1980 one of the ... (more)

A pair of MBTA PCC cars hum along Centre Street in Jamaica Plain on their way from downtown Boston to the Arborway terminal. This route, the surviving part of which is now the MBTA E Line, was cut... (more)

An MBTA PCC car has just departed Cedar Grove station on its way to Mattapan via the Mattapan-Ashmont "High Speed Trolley Line". Elderly PCCs still run here in 2017, but now they're rebu... (more)

MBTA FP-10 1101, which began life as a GM&O F3, propels a Boston-Fitchburg commuter train through Waltham, MA. At this point in its life the 1101 was a little faded, but nine years earlier when th... (more)

MBTA FP-10 1100, which began life as a GM&O F3, heads up a set of leased GO Transit coaches on a morning rush hour Framingham-Boston train. These smart little cab units brightened the Boston commu... (more)

A handsome set of Boston & Maine second generation power (two GP38-2s sandwiching a GP40-2) ties back onto train MEPO (Mechanicville, NY, to Portland, ME) after making its Lowell setout on an earl... (more)

It's a busy morning on the Boston & Maine at Ayer, MA. From right to left are train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, B&M/MEC runthrough) behind second generation power, train EDCO (East De... (more)

Light snow is falling as an EMD quartet swings through East Fitchburg, MA, with train MERU (a Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, B&M/MEC runthrough). Three GP40-2s front a trailing GP7 that was pr... (more)

Boston & Maine GP38-2 204, joined by a second GP38-2 and a GP40-2, leads an eastbound freight out of Mechanicville, NY through Shirley, MA, on a bright late summer morning.

One of the five ex-PRR E8s that Amtrak rebuilt with HEP capability for use on Northeast Corridor Amfleet consists leads two-car train 153, the Beacon Hill, out of South Station. This was a Boston-... (more)

A Boston & Maine freight with pooled Maine Central and B&M Geeps glides south along the Connecticut River outside Brattleboro, VT. The lead unit, MEC 590, is a former L&N GP7 rebuilt with a choppe... (more)