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.

A Franklin-bound commuter, lead by 1050, screeches to a stop at Readville.

Drawing out of the station over the Charles River on another outbound commuter mission.

Boston commuter trains of the mid-1970s featured an assortment of second- and third-hand equipment that the MBTA had acquired from Penn Central and the Boston & Maine. A minimally repainted ex-PC ... (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 couple days after getting a couple feet of snow, Keolis 1807 rounds the corner into Canton Junction, kicking up some snow as he pulls into the station.

An inbound commuter train on the MBTA's Fitchburg line kicks up a healthy plume as it speeds along near Lincoln. There's an F40PH somewhere back in that cloud, pushing a train of RDCs that were re... (more)

HSP-46 2006 leads train 015 at Titicut Street in Bridgewater.

An outbound Commuter Rail train destined for Fitchburg pulls into Ayer on a warm October afternoon.

Train 726, Shoreliner to Boston. A Roger Puta Photograph

An MBTA train accelerates away from the Westborough station on its way to Worcester.

The CapeFLYER's back on tracks! Celebrating it's third year of operation, the CapeFLYER service from Boston to Hyannis kicked off it's 2015 season on Memorial Day Weekend. Here we se... (more)

New York Central RDC at South Station in Boston, June 1977.