As the sun drops low, an evening MBTA rush hour train of ex-New Haven coaches behind an F40PH passes the former NH Dover Street coach yard in South Boston, now used for rapid transit (Red Line) ca... (more)

Departing Boston, an MBTA commuter train led by an F40PH crosses the Fort Point Channel drawbridge just outside South Station. This classic bascule bridge has since been replaced by a fixed span a... (more)

In early 1979 the MBTA leased Amtrak E9 434 for Boston commuter service. On a spring morning, it swung through the superelevated curve at the former Riverside station in Newton, MA, with a Framing... (more)

Nearing the end of its year-long lease to the MBTA for Boston commuter service, Delaware & Hudson PA 16 speeds through Weston, MA, westbound on a long summer evening with Boston-Framingham train 4... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, MBTA E8 4254 and its outbound rush hour train pause at Auburndale station in Newton, MA, on a Boston-Framingham run. The locomotive is ex-PRR, the coaches ex-NH, and th... (more)

Light snow is falling as an MBTA FP-10 and its train of depowered RDCs await the next departure from Boston's South Station.

An MBTA commuter train that has just departed the station at Haverhill, MA, steps across the Merrimack River on its way to Boston's North Station on ancestral Boston & Maine trackage. An FP-10 fro... (more)

The evening rush hour is over and former Boston & Maine RDCs now owned by the MBTA await their late night runs to the suburbs at Boston's North Station. RDC 6143's window grates and the numerous d... (more)

During its year-long lease to the MBTA for Boston commuter service, Delaware & Hudson PA 16 leans into a curve at Weston, MA, with a Boston-Framingham evening rush hour train. The former Boston & ... (more)

Boston Terminal Tower 1 and ranks of semaphores dating to 1899 glow in the night at Boston's South Station. A major reconstruction of the station and its approaches beginning two years after this ... (more)

The evening rush hour is over as an MBTA Stoughton-Boston local coils off the Stoughton Branch onto the Northeast Corridor mainline at Canton Jct., MA. An FP-10 cab unit that began life as a GM&O... (more)

An MBTA Fitchburg-Boston local comprised of an FP-10 cab unit and depowered RDC coaches accelerates away from the station stop on Boston & Maine trackage at Ayer, MA, on a summer morning.

A Boston-Providence commuter train operated by Conrail for the MBTA accelerates away from the stop at Canton Junction, MA. Conrail took over from Penn Central six months earlier and equipment owne... (more)

On a nasty winter day, MBTA F40 1008 and its inbound Eastern Route commuter train cross the B&M Charles River drawbridge and enter Boston's North Station.

Windblown snow adds to the general meteorological unpleasantness as a pair of ice-encrusted MBTA commuter trains behind an FP-10 and an F40 await their departures from Boston's old North Station. ... (more)