Waiting for their next assignment back to Boston during COVID-19 induced service reductions.

MBTA 1068 is fresh out of a rebuild and is now identified as a F40PH-3C and sports a new paint scheme. The locomotive is seen at Hells Blazes in Middleboro, MA on Mass Coastal's Cape Main Line bei... (more)

Unusual Interchange The MBTA wash train navigates through the layover yard in Middleboro for an unusual pickup: New York Central caboose 21052. The caboose is an original NYC piece, and ... (more)

MBTA F40PH 1011 pauses at Lincoln, MA, while working a Fitchburg-Boston local in a January snowstorm.

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)

The quiet of a long summer evening in Hoocksett, NH, is momentarily disturbed by the evening MBTA train between Boston and Concord, NH, over the Boston & Maine. This service ran under a one-year g... (more)

Four of the MBTA's 19 FP-10s were originally delivered with steam boilers for use with steam-heated ex-NH coaches, as in the case of this pair ready to depart Boston's South Station for Providence... (more)

Bound from South Station to Needham Heights, MA, with an evening rush hours train, the class unit of the MBTA's FP-10s splits the manual block semaphores at the junction at Forest Hills where Need... (more)

An interesting contrast between old and new. MBTA HSP46 2023, built in 2014, leads an almost 2 hour late Cape Flyer as it passes Cape Cod Central's "Scenic Train" with a pair of ex New H... (more)

MBTA train 1408 off the Fitchburg Line arrives at Boston's South Station as they cross the Charles River with a rebuilt GP40 on the shove.

Before they were famous! MBTA Commuter Rail EMD F40PH-2C 1054 was awaiting departure from Worcester, MA on Train 566 on Tuesday, October 26, 1999. This unit was one of ten recently rebuilt to F40P... (more)

Flying with the Flyer! MBTA Commuter Rail CapeFLYER has been well received by weekend travelers to Cape Cod. On July 8, 2018, the Sunday morning run heads towards Hyannis as it crosses the Cape Co... (more)

Newly rebuilt MBTA 1050 (F40PH-3C) is tied onto the rear of a string of MassDOT ballast hoppers and MBTA 011 and 2020 as it disappears out of sight in Middleboro. This is the MBTA Middleboro Extra... (more)

The MBTA Middleboro Extra runs around newly rebuilt F40PH-3C 1050 and a cut of MassDOT ballast hoppers in the Middleboro Layover Yard. HSP46 2020 and MP36PH-3C 011 will power the train into Boston... (more)