Back when Amtrak handled mail in the Northeast Corridor and South Station was switched by CF7s that still wore Santa Fe yellow and blue, the evening switch job posed with a string of MHCs that wil... (more)

A roughly 25-year-old Pullman Standard PCC runs outbound on the Boston College line (now the MBTA B Line) along the median of Commonwealth Avenue in Brighton in 1969. The first LRVs were nine yea... (more)

From 1898 until the terminal's major reconstruction in the mid-1980s, banks of lower quadrant semaphores protected the approaches to Boston's South Station. Penn Central E8 4268 led a Providence-b... (more)

The evening rush hour is underway as an ex-PRR E8 accelerates a Providence-bound Penn Central commuter train out of South Station past Boston Terminal Tower 1. This area is completely changed toda... (more)

With a healthy burp of Alco smoke, an A-B-B-A set of former New Haven FAs and FBs accelerates past South Bay Tower in South Boston as they get underway with Penn Central train BL-1 for Lowell, MA,... (more)

Heading literally and figuratively into the sunset, an A-B-B-A set of Alco cabs departs Penn Central's South Boston freight terminal for Lowell, MA, with train BL-1. The locomotives and trackage a... (more)

An evening rush hour MBTA commuter train just out of Boston's South Station crosses the massive triple bascule bridge over Fort Point Channel behind F40PH 1015. The bridge was constructed along wi... (more)

Boston PCC underground in Boston, Massachusetts? At the Boylston Station, there are 4 tracks, but only 2 active. The 2 inactive tracks are part of the Pleasant Street Incline, the southern access ... (more)

It's not the Fourth of July, but this old Alco is doing a good impression of a sparkler as it works the waterfront trackage along Atlantic Avenue in Boston. Penn Central S2 9859 is obviously of Ne... (more)

A set of New Haven road freight power consisting of two U25Bs bracketing a Century 425 has arrived at Boston from the west and pulled into the service pit at Dover Street Yard for fueling. These d... (more)

The bell clangs and ditch lights flash as cab car 1634 leads an inbound commuter on to Track 4 at North Station late in the afternoon.

HHP-8 663 sits in South Station late at night with a Northeast Regional consist awaiting assignment for the morning commute.

Amtrak's leased Bombardier LRC trainset lays over at South Station in Boston during its evaluation on the Northeast Corridor. The bug-eyed LRC was a neat change from F40s and Amfleet, but the demo... (more)

With downtown Boston in the background, a Northeast Corridor train departs South Station for New York and Washington behind F40PH 213. Today there are more tracks here, a web of catenary covers th... (more)