In the afternoon sun, the MBTA Wash Train idles on the Valley Track just outside Boston Engine Terminal in Somerville, MA. Two of four recently acquired lease units from GMTX are assigned to this ... (more)

Led by their 40th anniversary NPCU No. 406, Amtrak Downeaster 683 passes Mystic Junction with Boston looming in the background.

One of Alco's rarest locomotives was the 800 hp S-5 switcher. Only seven were built, and the Boston & Maine had six of them. Sharp-looking B&M 863 pushed cars over the Boston freight yard hump at ... (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.

Veteran MBTA locomotive 904 delivers twelve branch new MASSDOT maintenance of way hoppers to Boston Engine Terminal in Somerville, MA. This past spring, the Massachusetts Department of Transportat... (more)

The setting sun is turning the sky pink as Boston & Maine SW1 1123 works the yard lead at Mystic Junction in Somerville, MA. Fresh paint belied the fact that the neat little EMD was 29 years old.

GP18 No. 904 returns to Boston Engine Terminal in Somerville, MA after dumping stone on the Worcester Mainline. The crew is shoving 7 empty stone cars Eastbound on the "Brickbottom Lead" which run... (more)

Boston & Maine SW8 805 was working hump duty at the railroad's Boston freight terminal on an early spring afternoon when it paused for a moment outside the hump control tower at Mystic Junction in... (more)

Pan Am train SALO heads out of Everett and into Somerville over the Mystic River. The train of loaded dirty dirt gondolas from the construction site of the new Wynn Casino being built in the back... (more)

“Smoke Em if You Got Em” Pan AM train SALO pulls hard over the former Boston & Maine "Draw 7" as an MBTA commuter rail train is headed outbound on the opposing track. The 28 loads ar... (more)

Pan AM train LOSA pulls up to the switch to enter the former Boston & Maine "Yard 8" with 28 empty gondolas bound for the Wynn Casino project in Everett.

CSX Local Train B721 out of Framingham runs long hood forward to the former Boston & Maine "Draw 7" Bridge. The local is bringing 4 box cars to a customer in Everett.

Pan AM Railways train SALO leaves Everett with a four engine lashup of GP40s. The train is crossing the Mystic River with 27 loads of contaminated soil from the construction site of the new Wynn C... (more)

Pan AM Railways train SALO leaves Everett with a four engine lashup of GP40s. The train is crossing the Mystic River with 27 loads of contaminated soil from the construction site of the new Wynn C... (more)

Pan AM Railways train SALO has just left Everett with a four engine lash-up of Geeps. The consist is passing through the former Boston & Maine Yard 8 in Somerville. The train will soon enter the L... (more)