A Penn Central GP40 joins a New Haven Century 425 and two NH U25B's in this power set making a move into the service tracks at Dover Street Yard in South Boston. Fifty years later freight activity... (more)
Within weeks of Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, ex-PRR E8s began to take over Boston-New Haven passenger runs from the NH's own FL9s. A year after the merger, sets of FL9s and E8s in thr... (more)
On January 20, 1984, a predawn fire destroyed the wood pile trestle approaches to the Charles River drawbridge outside Boston's North Station, cutting off access to the station for 15 months while... (more)
In the mid-1980s, Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains exited Boston via the MBTA Fairmount branch as the NEC mainline between Back Bay and Forest Hills was relocated from an embankment to an open cut... (more)