The Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited gets underway out of South Station. It's headed for Albany and its Chicago connection beneath the semaphores that were a distinctive part of South... (more)

"MassDOT PTC Test Train at South Station" One of two MBTA F40's painted in MassDOT's special paint scheme sits at the point of a PTC Test train in Boston South Station. The train would hea... (more)

Light snow is falling as an MBTA FP-10 and its train of depowered RDCs await the next departure from Boston's South Station.

The evening rush hour is over and former Boston & Maine RDCs now owned by the MBTA await their late night runs to the suburbs at Boston's North Station. RDC 6143's window grates and the numerous d... (more)

"Blue Line at Orient Heights Jct" An inbound MBTA Blue Line train passes through Orient Heights Junction as it approaches the station.

"Blue Line at Beachmont" An inbound MBTA Blue Line train arrives at Beachmont, the only elevated station on the line.

"Winter Wonderland" An outbound MBTA Blue Line train approaches it's last stop, Wonderland Station, in the snow.

"Approaching Suffolk Downs" An inbound MBTA Blue Line train approaches Suffolk Downs Station in the snow.

It looks like an RS3-powered Amtrak train, but actually it's an empty equipment draft leaving Boston's South Station for the Southampton Street coach yard. Amtrak 106, assigned as the South Statio... (more)

Their corridor trips up from New Haven completed, leased Bombardier LRC locomotive 39 and Amtrak F40PH 208 compare profiles at Boston's South Station. The F40s had a long life with Amtrak, the LRC... (more)

One of the MBTA's double-ended PCCs (acquired secondhand from Dallas) glides along South Street in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston on its way from downtown to the Arborway terminal. In old Bos... (more)

Boston Terminal Tower 1 and ranks of semaphores dating to 1899 glow in the night at Boston's South Station. A major reconstruction of the station and its approaches beginning two years after this ... (more)

Amtrak is just a few days away as Penn Central train 427 between Boston and Albany, with an utterly minimal consist of an ex-NYC E8 and a single snack bar coach, accelerates west after clearing th... (more)

It's the night before Amtrak, and Penn Central train #8, the New York-Boston Merchants Limited, has completed its final run under private operation as it stands at the bumper in Boston's South Sta... (more)

On a cold winter day, Amtrak F40 208 is ready to depart Boston's South Station with a Washington-bound corridor train. A complete reconstruction of the station was imminent, and today high level p... (more)