With the PTC implementation continuing on the Lowell Line, the Boston & Maine searchlight signals are rumored to be retired this weekend. I had been procrastinating shooting here but was able to s... (more)

Amtrak Vermonter enters the mainline at CP 83 on the B&A sub

The engineer gives a friendly wave as Southbound Downeaster 692 swings through a curve in the rock cut just south of Greenwood Station in Wakefield, passing under the Cooper Street Bridge. This br... (more)

NECR 611 tip-toes south over the Miller's River Bridge in Miller's Falls, MA. Two SD40M-2s provide the power for 18 loads and 22 empties bound for Palmer, MA. The 5 inch show fall from the prior n... (more)

NECR 611 heads south past East Northfield Interlocking after entering the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from Vermont. Two SD40M-2s provide the power for 18 loads and 22 empties bound for Palmer, M... (more)

An outbound commuter train to Worcester slows to stop at Wellesley Square on a cold and brisk January afternoon. The Worcester Line is one of 5 routes on the MBTA network operating on weekends as ... (more)

On a frigid afternoon in the Berkshires, westbound freight has just made a 15 car pickup from the west Second Street Yard from the Housatonic and is leaving town by the Pittsfield Transportation C... (more)

The westbound Lake Shore Limited thunders through Wellesley Square station and past the Wellesley post office on its way west towards Albany and Chicago. 3 units lead elephant style, with the 3rd ... (more)

MBTA's Geometry Train trundles through downtown Milford, MA on its way back east towards Boston with MassDOT painted GP40MC 1136 in charge. Milford is at the far western end of MBTA's Franklin Lin... (more)

"Area 52" An MBTA test train sits next to the MBTA Rochester shop, a locomotive shop in Rochester, just north of Cape Cod. MBTA often sends locomotives down here to be serviced a... (more)

Pam Am Railways train RJED (Rotterdam Jct, NY - East Deerfield, MA) blasts out of the east portal of the 4.75 mile Hoosic Tunnel with a pair of ex CSX GE C40-8Ws leading the mile-long train. The s... (more)

MBTA Freight Service? MBTX 1057 waits in Framingham after being dropped off earlier in the day. This unit is waiting to be sent south to Middleboro, where MBTA will prepare it for service ... (more)

A Downeaster on the Western Route south of Wilmington Junction is rare enough, but a Downeaster with P42 on each end on the Western Route south of Wilmington Junction may as well be a Halley's Com... (more)

A sunlit inbound MBTA Commuter Rail train from Haverhill approaches the shadowy Melrose/Cedar Park station on a brisk January morning. Today would mark the last day of weekend service on most Comm... (more)

The late morning Downeaster 692 rolls through a curve just past Melrose/Cedar Park Station on a brisk January morning. The track seen to the right is the former freight siding into what was Deerin... (more)