As the winter sun drops low, the Amtrak yard crew aboard RS-3 103 pushes the equipment for an outbound corridor train from Southampton Street yard into South Station. Amtrak 103 was built as NYC 8... (more)

As the afternoon rush hour approaches, half of the MBTA's fleet of 8 ex-PRR E8s have moved from the service tracks into Boston's South Station, where they will split into two pairs and couple onto... (more)

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, Boston & Maine RDCs pass the weekend inside the B&M's Boston Engine Terminal roundhouse.

F40's ruled South Station back in 1993. A newer F40PH-2C is joined by "class unit" F40PH 1000 on a quiet, cloudy morning in Boston. The construction work that is visible here is a sign... (more)

Working as a South Station switcher, Amtrak RS-3 137 pulls the recently arrived consist of the Lake Shore Limited across the Fort Point Channel bridge on its way to Southampton Street coach yard i... (more)

One of Amtrak's five HEP-equipped E8s pulls into the classic 1887 station at Hartford, CT, on its way from New Haven to Springfield with a two-car shuttle run. Amtrak 495 was an ex-PRR unit rebuil... (more)

As the sun drops low, a trio of Boston & Maine GP9s power train SAED (Salem to East Deerfield, MA) through West Medford, MA. At the time this train handled much of the B&M's freight business in an... (more)

This was once a common sight across the country, now rare: a classic EMD switcher working an urban yard. Boston & Maine SW9 1231 shuttled cars at Mystic Junction in East Somerville, MA, on a sprin... (more)

In the early and mid 1980s, the MBTA relied on a lot of secondhand equipment to keep things moving. Former BN/NP GP9 1921 headed up a train of RDC equipment that includes an ex-CP car at the East ... (more)

An MBTA commuter train behind an F40PH en route from Boston to Fitchburg, MA, accelerates west through East Somerville on a summer afternoon. Today the B&M freight bridge in the background is gone... (more)

A summer shower is pouring down as Amtrak train 448, the Boston section of the eastbound Lake Shore Limited, storms through Ashland, MA, with a mix of Heritage and Amfleet equipment behind the usu... (more)

Sometimes you have to get out and dig! MBTA trolley snowplow 5138 and its crew work to clear the Beacon Street line (now the MBTA C Line) in Brookline, MA, during a February 1969 blizzard that dep... (more)

Working west on Boston & Maine rails with train POPY, a trio of Delaware & Hudson GP39-2s swing through North Leominster, MA, on a snowy winter morning. POPY was the Guilford organization's long d... (more)

The calendar has just turned to April but there's still snow on the ground in Otter River, MA, as Boston & Maine train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC) smokes things up on its... (more)

A stretch of subzero weather in January 1984 left Amtrak's trouble-prone SPV-2000 railcars unable to propel themselves, so diesels including veteran RS-3s were drafted to keep things moving. Amtra... (more)