The MBTA's first F40PH seemed to be a fitting subject for my one thousandth photo on this site. MBTA 1000 was on its way out of Boston's South Station at rush hour with a string of ex-New Haven co... (more)

With the Fort Point Channel drawbridge in the background, a nearly new MBTA FP-10 and a string of leased GO Transit coaches depart South Station for the suburbs during the evening rush hour. The ... (more)

Following an overnight snowstorm, the sun breaks through as an outbound MBTA commuter train behind an F40 approaches Clematis Brook in Waltham, MA. The train is bound from Boston to Fitchburg, and... (more)

Five months into the Conrail era, a pair of Jersey Central GP7s lead a Newark-Bay Head Junction evening commuter train past the classic 1876 station at Red Bank, NJ, on the New York & Long Branch.... (more)

An empty parking lot due to repaving permitted this broadside view of Penn Central E8 4322 pausing at Red Bank, NJ, with a New York-Bay Head Junction evening commuter train operated by Conrail. PC... (more)

Southern Pacific GP9 3194 pokes its bright red nose out of the shadows of the platforms and into the sunshine after arriving at San Jose with a midday commuter local from San Francisco.

Former L&N FA2 317 has found a new life as Long Island Rail Road cab car/HEP power car 601 as it awaits departure from Oyster Bay station. A GP38-2 on the rear will provide propulsion for the Jama... (more)

With a GP38-2 pushing on the rear, an Alco FA cab car leads a Long Island commuter train a couple miles west of Oyster Bay on its way to Jamaica. LIRR 600 began life as NYC FA2 1102.

In Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, Penn Central's CHICK Tower, formerly New Haven RR tower SS185, stood behind Northeastern University in what is now the general area of the MBTA's Ruggles station... (more)

A minimally repainted ex-NYC RS3 leads a Penn Central commuter train that's just out of South Station and bound for Framingham as it approaches Boston's Back Bay Station. E8s and RS3s were the usu... (more)

Late in the era of steam-heated passenger trains, MBTA E8 4264 pops off while waiting to depart Boston's South Station with a Framingham local.

During the year that Conrail was the contract operator of the MBTA's South Side commuter service, a couple Conrail-owned ex-NYC E8s usually supplemented the MBTA's own ex-PRR Es. On the final week... (more)

The Pennsylvania Railroad once rostered over 500 MP-54 class MUs, a design dating to 1915, but by 1971 newer equipment was coming on line to replace them. This set of owl-eyed MP-54s running as a ... (more)

The final assignment for the former New Haven "washboard" MUs (Pullman-Standard 1954) as they were retired was the New Canaan Branch shuttle, where a pair held down the assignment into 1... (more)

For more than thirty years the face of the PC/CR/MN New Haven line was the rounded end of an M2/M4/M6 class MU, some 346 of which were built between 1973 and 1995. This set running as a New Haven-... (more)