An MBTA FP-10 and a string of leased GO Transit coaches await their departure from Lowell, MA, for Boston. The little machine to their left was a British Leyland railbus that ran for a short time ... (more)

Red Line cars sit at Cabot Yard awaiting assignment or maintenance on a freezing night in January.

1061 leans into a curve while its K5LA sounds for the Plain St. crossing in Braintree. The Middleboro-bound train has just diverged where the two MBTA Old Colony branch lines split.

When the Fairmount Shuttle was extended to Readville becoming the MBTA Fairmount Line in 1987, the Providence/Stoughton Line discontinued the use of the lower platform on the three track Northeast... (more)

A Franklin-bound commuter, lead by 1050, screeches to a stop at Readville.

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)

Three-car trains of PCCs were a common rush hour sight on the MBTA's Boston College/Commonwealth Avenue line (now the MBTA B Line) in the late 60s/early 70s. The lead car on this train wears a sho... (more)

One of the double-ended PCCs that came to Boston secondhand from Dallas glides beneath the Orange Line el structure as it departs the Arborway terminal in Jamaica Plain, headed for downtown Boston... (more)

Drawing out of the station over the Charles River on another outbound commuter mission.

"PCC Streetcar in the Brooklyn Sunset " Ex-MBTA PCC Streetcar sits lonely behind the Fairway Market of Red Hook in Brooklyn during a glowing sunset. This PCC was one of several that were b... (more)

Boston commuter trains of the mid-1970s featured an assortment of second- and third-hand equipment that the MBTA had acquired from Penn Central and the Boston & Maine. A minimally repainted ex-PC ... (more)

An MBTA commuter train on the coastal Rockport/Newburyport line glides along the tidal North River at Salem, MA. Equipment is an FP-10 cab unit with a set of depowered RDC coaches. Come the weeken... (more)

The MBTA's first F40PH clatters across the Conrail diamond at Walpole station with a Boston- Franklin train. When Walpole station was built in 1883, this was a crossing of the New York & New Engla... (more)

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.