During its year-long lease to the MBTA, Delaware & Hudson PA 17 hustles west through Newton, MA, paralleling the Massachusetts Turnpike with a Boston-Framingham commuter train.

A Boston-Providence commuter train operated by Penn Central for the MBTA passes the old wooden tower at Mansfield, MA, as it slows for a station stop. The engineer's window of ex-PRR E8 4264 shows... (more)

On January 20, 1984, a predawn fire destroyed the wood pile trestle approaches to the Charles River drawbridge outside Boston's North Station, cutting off access to the station for 15 months while... (more)

Amid a frosting of snow, an MBTA commuter train made up of RDCs pushed by a GP9 on the rear rolls into the stop at Waltham, MA. The operator at Waltham Tower has no orders for the train, so the lo... (more)

MBTA F40 1005 rolls through Shirley, MA, with a Boston-Fitchburg commuter train on a fall morning.

Displaying the classic profile of an EMD cab unit, MBTA FP-10 1152 speeds through Shirley, MA, on the point of a Fitchburg-Boston commuter train. MBTA 1152 began life as a Gulf, Mobile & Ohio F3 b... (more)

The former Boston & Maine roundhouse and service tracks comprising the Boston Engine Terminal stretch out behind an MBTA commuter train incoming from Lowell behind an FP-10. All of the railroad bu... (more)

In the mid-1980s the MBTA purchased six GP9s from the Burlington Northern for use on trains of depowered RDCs that did not require locomotive HEP. Still wearing GN green, MBTA 1921, a onetime NP u... (more)

MBTA FP10 1150 leads a trio of former New Haven coaches on a Boston-Framingham commuter train rolling through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. The wisps of steam coming from the cars sho... (more)

A pair of Penn Central E8s working in MBTA commuter service await the evening rush hour at South Station in Boston. The reconstruction of the mid-1980s completely changed the look of this 1899 ter... (more)

An E8-powered Penn Central commuter train operated for the MBTA between Boston an Providence pulls into the station at Attleboro, MA, where a good size rush hour crowd will exit. Meanwhile, my fri... (more)

On a long summer evening, an MBTA Boston-Framingham (MA) commuter train rolls west through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany line, powered by one of the T's six ex-PRR/PC E8s.

MBTA GP9 7557, a former NH/PC unit, heads up a Boston-Needham Heights commuter train at Needham Junction station during the evening rush hour. It would soon be traded to the Illinois Central Gulf ... (more)

In early 1980 the MBTA evaluated a Leyland railbus from England as a possible acquisition for off-peak service on lightly traveled lines. Here the British import poses in front of Amtrak's Attlebo... (more)

As the afternoon rush hour approaches, half of the MBTA's fleet of 8 ex-PRR E8s have moved from the service tracks into Boston's South Station, where they will split into two pairs and couple onto... (more)