On a long summer evening, an MBTA Boston-Framingham (MA) commuter train rolls west through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany line, powered by one of the T's six ex-PRR/PC E8s.

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)

Boston commuter trains of the mid-1970s featured an assortment of second- and third-hand equipment that the MBTA had acquired from Penn Central and the Boston & Maine. A minimally repainted ex-PC ... (more)