Boston & Maine train local freight WA-1 has tied up at Waterbury, CT, after serving customers between Waterbury and Derby on Metro North's Naugatuck Valley Line. GP9s and GP18s were the regular po... (more)

As seen from a hillside, Boston & Maine train WJCP (White River Jct. to Newport, VT) rolls up the Connecticut River Valley near Fairlee, VT, behind a B&M GP9 and a Canadian Pacific Century 424. Th... (more)

At first glance, this scene looks like it's straight out of the 1950s. However, the scene is from merely a decade ago, with Boston & Maine's F7 4266 sitting adjacent to the North Conway station. I... (more)

In what looks like a scene out of a post-apocalypse movie, the remains of the Boston & Maine engine repair facility at Iron Horse Park in North Billerica stand battered and weather-beaten after ye... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP39-2, “appropriated” from the Delaware & Hudson by Guilford, leads a southbound D&H train past the yard office in Taylor, Pennsylvania.

A Boston & Maine GP39-2 and a Maine Central U23B, both pilfered from the Delaware & Hudson roster by Guilford, lead a “real” B&M GP38-2 at Catasauqua, Pennsylvania. They are assigned to train ... (more)

A B&M slug set leads a train working the yard in front of the tower in Lowell, MA.

Silhouetted by its own cloud of smoke, a westbound Boston & Maine freight led by a GP39-2 and three mates accelerates through Greenfield, MA, as it begins its climb of the Berkshires.

In the early 1980s the Amherst Railway Society sponsored the repainting of Boston & Maine SW9 1223 into its original brown and yellow scheme. Here the sharp-looking switcher was working the East F... (more)

Early snow is on the ground as a trio of Boston & Maine GP40-2s lead train POME (Portland, ME, to Mechanicville, NY) through Fitchburg, MA. The track at lower right is the now-abandoned ex-NH bran... (more)

By the early 1970 the Boston & Maine was retiring the GE 44-Tonners that had been used in light switching assignments around the system. Four of them were lined up out of service outside the Bill... (more)

In the predawn quiet at White River Junction, VT, Boston & Maine GP7 waits out the night on the service track behind the station. In the morning it go to work with Connecticut River Line local fre... (more)

The end was approaching for the last remnant of the Boston & Maine's Manchester & Lawrence Branch as SW1 1129 returned to Lawrence, MA, with a short local freight. At this point only a few miles o... (more)

On a splendid fall afternoon a trio of Boston & Maine GP40-2s climb up the Millers River valley at Erving, MA, on the point of train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC).

Boston & Maine GP18 1750, the first of six on the B&M roster, leads its train through the yard at East Deerfield, MA, while an Alco switcher works in the distance. I always liked the slant-nose pr... (more)