Silhouetted by its own cloud of smoke, a westbound Boston & Maine freight led by a GP39-2 and three mates accelerates through Greenfield, MA, as it begins its climb of the Berkshires.

In the early 1980s the Amherst Railway Society sponsored the repainting of Boston & Maine SW9 1223 into its original brown and yellow scheme. Here the sharp-looking switcher was working the East F... (more)

Early snow is on the ground as a trio of Boston & Maine GP40-2s lead train POME (Portland, ME, to Mechanicville, NY) through Fitchburg, MA. The track at lower right is the now-abandoned ex-NH bran... (more)

By the early 1970 the Boston & Maine was retiring the GE 44-Tonners that had been used in light switching assignments around the system. Four of them were lined up out of service outside the Bill... (more)

In the predawn quiet at White River Junction, VT, Boston & Maine GP7 waits out the night on the service track behind the station. In the morning it go to work with Connecticut River Line local fre... (more)

The end was approaching for the last remnant of the Boston & Maine's Manchester & Lawrence Branch as SW1 1129 returned to Lawrence, MA, with a short local freight. At this point only a few miles o... (more)

On a splendid fall afternoon a trio of Boston & Maine GP40-2s climb up the Millers River valley at Erving, MA, on the point of train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC).

Boston & Maine GP18 1750, the first of six on the B&M roster, leads its train through the yard at East Deerfield, MA, while an Alco switcher works in the distance. I always liked the slant-nose pr... (more)

With the hulk of the Lehigh Valley Packerton car shops standing silent sentinel over the site of Lehighton yard, a northbound Delaware & Hudson train rolls through Packerton, Pennsylvania. A forme... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP7 working in MBTA commuter service approaches Boston's North Station with a train of depowered RDCs. These GP7/RDC combinations were common for a couple years after 1978 as the ... (more)

Bound for the D&H connection at Mechanicville, NY, a westbound Boston & Maine freight gets underway after making a pickup at Ayer, MA. A GP18 leads three GP9s on the point.

Bound for Binghamton, a southbound Delaware & Hudson manifest works its way down Belden Hill at Dyes, New York. A Boston & Maine GP38 leads the usual Guilford mix of power, and matched sets are a ... (more)

Boston & Maine GP9 1734 poses at the back door of the Boston Engine Terminal shop before making its next run west to Mechanicville, NY. By this time the handsome "Bluebird" paint scheme ... (more)

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.