The RDCs and the smokestack in the background indicate that Erie Lackawanna U33C 3315 is an out-of-town visitor as it lays over beneath the sand towers at the Boston & Maine's Boston Engine Termin... (more)

Pan Am's OCS makes a somewhat rare appearance in Boston, seen here at Tower A just outside North Station

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)

On a winter night at Boston's South Station, one Amtrak train from Washington has just arrived and discharged its passengers while another prepares to depart. The departing train at right is #67, ... (more)

"High Speed" PCC: While the phrase High Speed may not be something commonly associated with a PCC Streetcar, the term as applied to this stretch of the MBTA red line on the... (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)

Purple People Push-Pulls... perhaps a good way to describe the coming and going of these two MBTA MPI HSP46 locomotives at Boston South Station. 2024 is just pulling into Track 3, while sister 203... (more)

Boston South Station at the beginning of the afternoon peak, with F40PHM-2C #1027 about to depart from Track 6, while a MPI HSP46 #2026 waits its turn in the background on Track 11. Over on the le... (more)

Former New York Central E8 4093 heads up Penn Central train 427 at South Station in Boston. This two-car train to Albany, where it made a western connection, served as PC's pre-Amtrak connection f... (more)

MBTA 7538 was the only one of the agency's 14 ex-New Haven/Penn Central GP9s to receive the yellow/purple/gray "Easter egg" paint scheme. It awaited the evening rush hour at Boston's Sou... (more)

An inbound MBTA commuter train consisting of a set of depowered RDCs behind an FP-10 cab unit crosses the Charles River drawbridge and enters Boston's North Station. The MBTA's 19 FP-10s were form... (more)

Amtrak's Fast Mail was the mail and package express train that operated overnight between Boston and Washington. With a string of baggage cars and a single Amcoach behind its F40, southbound #13 p... (more)

On a cold winter morning in Boston, the GP9s and RDCs that brought New Haven Railroad commuters in from the suburbs gather at Dover Street Yard in South Boston amid clouds of train heating steam.... (more)

Having departed from the Arborway terminal and ducked under the New Haven RR mainline, a pair of MBTA PCCs venture out onto South Street in Jamaica Plain on their way downtown via Huntington Avenu... (more)