An abandoned mill building looms over the tracks at Gardner, MA, as Maine Central GP38 260 leads a Boston & Maine GP38-2 and a B&M GP40-2 on the point of train BASE, a Bangor, ME, to Rotterdam Jun... (more)

With downtown Boston in the background, Amtrak train 67, the Night Owl, prepared to depart South Station for Washington behind F40PH 209. This view is now history as a parking garage and bus termi... (more)

A trio of bright blue Boston & Maine GP9s head up train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA), eastbound on the Stony Brook branch approaching Forge Village, MA, on a nice summer day. This was one of... (more)

It looks as if Penn Central must have used water-based paint for the logo on E8 4084, which could definitely use a touch-up. The ex-NYC E-unit was assigned to Boston-Framingham commuter service wh... (more)

Amid fall foliage, Boston & Maine GP18 1751 rolls south on the Connecticut River Line at Bernardston, MA, with local freight ED-4 out of East Deerfield. The B&M's six GP18s were the road's first l... (more)

One of the three ex-Illinois Terminal SD39s purchased by the Guilford organization from the N&W for the Boston & Maine heads up an ex-Conrail GP40 and a native B&M GP40 on train POPY (Portland-Pot... (more)

On a warm fall day shortly after the Boston & Maine and Maine Central began pooling road diesels, B&M train POME (Portland, ME, to Mechanicville, NY) rolls west through Shirley, MA, behind two MEC... (more)

A pair of MBTA "all electric" PCCs prepare to depart from the Arborway loop for a trip to downtown Boston via Huntington Avenue. Twenty-five of Boston's 346 PCCs were of this design, in ... (more)

Boston & Maine train BASE (Bangor, ME, to Rotterdam Jct., NY, via MEC/B&M) rattles the old station and freight house at Rockingham Junction, NH, on a fine fall day. A B&M GP38-2 and a GP7 are team... (more)

In the early 1980s the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority purchased six Burlington Northern GP9s for commuter service hauling depowered RDCs. Here MBTA 1925 enters Boston's North Station w... (more)

Amtrak train 449, the Boston section of the Lake Shore Limited, gets underway out of South Station for points west beneath a row of semaphores that have beein in service since 1899. The twin F40s ... (more)

MBTA 4261 was the only one of the system's eight ex-PRR E8s to receive this solid gray paint job, earning it the nickname "Gray Ghost". It posed at Boston's South Station while awaiting ... (more)

As the sun drops low on a long summer evening, MBTA E8 4261 hustles a short Providence-Boston commuter local through Central Falls, RI. The 4261 was the only one of the MBTA's eight ex-PRR E-units... (more)

Bay Colony S4 1058 was the only one of the railroad's five Alco switchers to receive a dark red "cranberry" paint scheme. Working here for the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad, it leads a Hya... (more)

Late on a summer afternoon, Bay Colony S4 1061 eases a Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad excursion train off the Cape Cod Canal lift bridge at Canal Junction in Bourne, MA,, where the former New Haven l... (more)