The hard winter of 1977-78 knocked so many MBTA RDCs out of service with ice damage to their engines or transmissions that Boston & Maine GP7s were borrowed to provide propulsion and became a comm... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP7 that has been drafted into MBTA commuter service leads a Rockport-Boston train of depowered RDCs past the boarded-up tower in Lynn, MA, on its way to North Station.

A shortage of MBTA commuter power in early 1978 led to this combination of a Boston & Maine freight GP9 and a Canadian National steam generator car leading a train of former New Haven coaches on a... (more)

Geo train MBTA’s Geometry Extra is seen going south of Middleborough, MA, towards Cape Cod. (Buzzards Bay, MA) This train was originally supposed to go all the way to Hyannis, MA, but due to ... (more)

Overhauled! After being overhauled for what felt like a long time, MassDOT engine 1136 is seen pulling Keolis train 193 towards Beverly, MA out of North Station. Note the Zakim Bridge/I-93 in the ... (more)

EMD GP40MC 1125 leaving Shirley Station thru Phoenix Street.

2009 passing the Davis Street Apts in Shirley.

The passengers waiting in the snow will soon welcome the warmth inside the cars as an MBTA Fitchburg-Boston local pulls into the station at Lincoln, MA. An F40PH is pushing on the rear of the shor... (more)

With a puff of smoke, MBTA GP9 7539 accelerates its train out of Boston's South Station at rush hour. Both the Geep and the coaches trailing it are of New Haven heritage. The locomotive would soon... (more)

An inbound MBTA Commuter Rail service starts its journey to Boston, as it departs Reading Depot on a brisk but sun-filled morning on the 2nd day of 2020.

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 Westbound Fitchburg commuter rail train pulls into the station in Ayer on a beautiful Columbus Day afternoon. ... (more)

An outbound MBTA commuter train rolls through the Hyde Park section of Boston on the Fairmount line behind an F40. At the time all trains on the MBTA's ex-New Haven lines took this alternate route... (more)

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)

A solo Boston & Maine RDC running as a midday Woburn-Boston local swings off the two-mile Woburn Branch and onto the mainline at Winchester, MA. The MBTA dropped service on the branch in 1981 and ... (more)