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)

The power for the Maine Central's Rockland Branch train lays over at Rockland, ME, yard on a summer afternoon. MEC 332 is an SW7 and mate 334 is an SW9. Later in the day they will power train NJ-2... (more)

Boston & Maine SW1 11120 pauses in its duties in the B&M's Boston freight terminal in East Cambridge, MA.

On a bright fall afternoon, a trio of Boston & Maine GP9s lead train SPCP (Springfield, MA, to Newport, VT, via B&M/CP) north through Greenfield, MA. This train commonly ran with pooled B&M and CP... (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)

The setting sun reflects off the string of Boston & Maine Geeps -- three GP9s and a GP7 -- that lead train EDSA (East Deerfield-Salem, MA) as its awaits a new crew in the B&M yard in East Cambridg... (more)

The Pinsly organization, like many shortline holding companies, frequently swapped locomotives between its railroads. That's how Frankfort & Cincinnati S4 106 moved from its home in Kentucky to Ma... (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)

With the usual GP9 up front, Boston & Maine train WA-1 parallels the Naugatuck River in Naugatuck, CT, southbound on Metro North's Waterbury branch. At the time this Waterbury-based local served c... (more)

A quartet of Boston & Maine GP9s lead train EDSA (east Deerfield to Salem, MA) past the Tufts University campus in Medford, MA. Most of the cars will be set out in the B&M's Boston freight yard in... (more)

Between 1984 and 1988 the Cape Cod & Hyannis Railroad operated seasonal excursion service between Hyannis and a Boston transit connection at Braintree. During the first season, CC&H GP9 1210 led a... (more)

During the summer of 1983, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad operated with borrowed Bay Colony Railroad Alco switchers, before it had locomotives of its own. Bay Colony S4 1061 with a CC&H t... (more)

On a perfect fall day, a pair of Boston & Maine GP9s ease train EDCO (East Deerfield, MA, to Concord, NH) through the double-to-single track transition at Willows East interlocking in Littleton, M... (more)

Chopped-nose Maine Central GP7 590 leads a pair of Boston & Maine GP9s on train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) southbound at Brattleboro, VT. The B&M Connecticut River Line tra... (more)