Inbound Fitchburg Line train to Boston's North Station makes a station stop at Brandeis/Roberts Train Station. MBTA 1075 (F40PH-2C) is on the rear.

Following an overnight snowstorm, the sun breaks through as an outbound MBTA commuter train behind an F40 approaches Clematis Brook in Waltham, MA. The train is bound from Boston to Fitchburg, and... (more)

Three years after the last train rolled here, nature is beginning to take over the abandoned Central Massachusetts Branch of the Boston & Maine in Waltham, MA. The line was railbanked by the MBTA ... (more)

After GP7 1555 has run around its train on the mainline, Boston & Maine local freight BO-1 out of Cambridge ventures down the Bemis Branch at Waltham, MA, crossing the Charles River past a 19th ce... (more)

Amid a frosting of snow, an MBTA commuter train made up of RDCs pushed by a GP9 on the rear rolls into the stop at Waltham, MA. The operator at Waltham Tower has no orders for the train, so the lo... (more)

As heavy snow falls, an outbound MBTA commuter run from Boston to Fitchburg, MA, slows to pick up the well-insulated passengers waiting at the Waltham station. Former Boston & Maine RDC-1 6155 is ... (more)

Boston & Maine GP9 1808 and local freight BO-1 out of Boston make their way through a late season snowfall, westbound outside Waltham, MA, on the former Fitchburg Division. The snow-covered track ... (more)

Boston & Maine SW1 1128 and the crew of the Bemis Branch local freight run around a boxcar before easing it into an industrial spur in Waltham, MA. This short branch was a stub-end remnant of the ... (more)

Three months before the end of passenger service on the Boston & Maine's Central Massachusetts Branch, the single RDC that comprised the evening commuter run between Boston and South Sudbury plows... (more)

MBTA 1013 was the only one of the agency's F40PHs that received the handsome maroon and gray color scheme that was briefly in use in the mid-1980s. It headed up a Fitchburg Line commuter train out... (more)

MBTA FP-10 1101, which began life as a GM&O F3, propels a Boston-Fitchburg commuter train through Waltham, MA. At this point in its life the 1101 was a little faded, but nine years earlier when th... (more)

A nice crowd waits at Roberts station in Waltham, MA, to board an inbound MBTA commuter train from Fitchburg on a fall morning. F40PH 1013 was the only unit of its class to receive the MBTA's hand... (more)

With my everyday camera in the shop and a recently acquired rental body in hand, I decided what better thing to do than shoot some trains at a location I've never been to before. Plenty of signal ... (more)

Requiem for Waltham Tower. Waltham Tower was in operation from 1928 until June 8, 2013, when it closed at 3pm. During its final years its operators controlled the 20 or miles betwe... (more)