The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) system is shown on a map in a logo on the sides of the vintage PCC streetcars operating on the 2.6-mile Ashmont to Mattapan “High Speed Line... (more)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) PCC streetcar No. 3254 has just arrived at Mattapan station on September 12, 2003. This car was built by Pullman-Standard in 1946 for the Boston E... (more)

At the end of the Ashmont to Mattapan “High Speed Line,” Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) PCC streetcar No. 3263 has just arrived at Mattapan station on September 12, 2003. Th... (more)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) PCC streetcar No. 3254 is about to enter the dark environs of the old Ashmont station on September 12, 2003. This station, which serves busses, MB... (more)

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)

On a beautiful April day, the Readville Switcher trundles down the Grand Junction branch with a lone Bi-Level in tow. Lead unit 904 was built in March 1960 for the Grand Trunk Western. The inte... (more)

"MassDOT PTC Test Train at South Station" One of two MBTA F40's painted in MassDOT's special paint scheme sits at the point of a PTC Test train in Boston South Station. The train would hea... (more)

An outbound commuter is pulling into the station track at Wachusett the final destination for this train. Just getting re-crewed is an eastbound stack train with a recently rebuilt CP AC4400.

"Blue Line at Orient Heights Jct" An inbound MBTA Blue Line train passes through Orient Heights Junction as it approaches the station.

"Blue Line at Beachmont" An inbound MBTA Blue Line train arrives at Beachmont, the only elevated station on the line.

"Winter Wonderland" An outbound MBTA Blue Line train approaches it's last stop, Wonderland Station, in the snow.

"Approaching Suffolk Downs" An inbound MBTA Blue Line train approaches Suffolk Downs Station in the snow.

One of the MBTA's double-ended PCCs (acquired secondhand from Dallas) glides along South Street in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston on its way from downtown to the Arborway terminal. In old Bos... (more)

Boston Terminal Tower 1 and ranks of semaphores dating to 1899 glow in the night at Boston's South Station. A major reconstruction of the station and its approaches beginning two years after this ... (more)