Following a February 1978 blizzard that dumped over two feet of snow in the Boston area, the Boston & Maine assigned locomotives to pilot lightweight RDC consists to prevent derailments at ice-pac... (more)

It's momentarily quiet at the east end of the Boston & Maine's busy East Deerfield (MA) yard as GP9 1719 and SW9 1223 await their next job. Meanwhile, a work crew is installing some sort of pipe o... (more)

Three models of EMD road switchers in five paint schemes lead a southbound train out of the Delaware & Hudson yard in Taylor, Pennsylvania. First out is a Boston & Maine GP39-2 plundered from the ... (more)

This was an odd one. From front to back we have a backwards-running Boston & Maine GP39-2, a Maine Central (ex-Detroit Edison) SD40, a Springfield Terminal SD26, and a Boston & Maine GP38-2. The e... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP40-2 heads up a mixed five-unit lashup on the point of westbound freight BASE (Bangor, ME, to Rotterdam Jct., NY) at Ayer, MA.

A Delaware & Hudson RS11 mixes with a Boston & Maine GP18 and two GP9s on the point of B&M train EDSA (East Deerfield-Salem, MA) at Ayer, MA. Looks like the snow is a little deeper out west.

Fresh out of the paint shop, a Boston & Maine GP18 waits for an assignment at Lowell, Massachusetts.

The brakeman of Boston & Maine’s Groveton switcher looks down the track at the next cars to grab as his ride approaches.

Eastbound Boston & Maine train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) behind a GP40-2/GP38-2 duo has arrived at the big yard at East Deerfield, MA, and come to a stop at the east end yard office.... (more)

Eastbound Boston & Maine train SPPO (Springfield, MA, to Portland, ME) rolls through the center of Gardner, MA, behind a GP40-2/GP38-2 duo.

Three years after the last train rolled here, nature is beginning to take over the abandoned Central Massachusetts Branch of the Boston & Maine in Waltham, MA. The line was railbanked by the MBTA ... (more)

On a winter afternoon, Boston & Maine train MEPO (Mechanicville, NY, to Portland, ME) makes its setout in the yard at Lawrence, MA. GP38-2 207 leads a mixed set of -38s and -40s.

Boston & Maine GP9 1707 and F3 4228 peer out the back doors of the shop building at the B&M's Boston Engine Terminal in East Cambridge, MA. At the time the 4228 was the railroad's last surviving F... (more)

Boston & Maine train LASE (Lawrence, MA, to Rotterdam Jct., NY) rolls west through Shirley, MA, behind a B&M GP38-2 and and Maine Central (ex-D&H) U23B. The lead unit's pilot suggests that there's... (more)