The seemingly final run of Pan Am Railways rolling time machine, AKA the wreck train. This train is only brought out when train derailments on the system are big enough for the call to service. Th... (more)

Awoke to a bright sunny morning. Looked out my hotel window and was able to catch MBTA 505 running along the Mass Pike.

Running nearly thirty minutes late, an afternoon train from Worcester to Boston passes through Wellseley Farms after making a station stop.

A morning commuter train for Boston passes under a hotel that is built on a deck over the erstwhile New York Central (Boston & Albany) main.

Having just checked into my hotel that sits on a deck over the old Boston & Albany and the Mass Pike, I am entertained by a Worcester to Boston commuter train about to pass underneath me on this r... (more)

D&H PA1 in MBTA service idles in the yard area of Bostons South station, together with some yard switcher. Sun has nearly gone, only a little bit light shows the beauty of this engine and livery.

Pan Am was a very interesting, if often troubled railroad. It was born from a railroad in a similar situation, and never quite emerged from the problems that plagued its predecessor, Guilford. How... (more)

MCER 1751, MECR 2100, MCER 1749, & MCER 1750 Are Seen Here Sitting In Palmer, Mass Due To A Derailment On There Line And Are Waiting For The Line To Reopen So They Can Continue Moving Freight Betw... (more)

Rapid Transit They call it rapid transit for a reason. Things can get pretty busy here on the Green Line, even in the middle of the day. Here at Woodland, we see brand new CAF Type 9 cars ... (more)

In a shot taken on the last day of operation for Pan Am Railways, Pan Am Southern (joint venture between Pan Am Railways and Norfolk Southern) 16R comes off the system's western main line to Mecha... (more)

How quickly and suddenly things change. With the Pan Am no more & their OCS seemingly headed to Waycross on CSXT, what will become of them? Dialing it back a number of years, the OCS with their ... (more)

Pan Am Railways train EDRJ (East Deerfield - Rotterdam Junction) departs East Deerfield with MEC 7727 on point with its baby blue nose.

Swap out the locomotives and the cars, and this could just as easily be a scene from the 1950s or 1960s. Double-stacks and AC power seem to dominate today's rail scene, but if you dig deep enough ... (more)

With 38 empties in tow, LA-3 struggles to get upto track speed as they head North through Shop Interlocking in Billerica, MA on the MBTA's New Hampshire Mainline. The former Boston & Maine "Biller... (more)

Boston Legends Two light F40s cross the BU Bridge to pick up a string of ballast hoppers on the Grand Junction Branch. 1030 is one of the few remaining F40s yet to be rebuilt on MBTA's fle... (more)