The hard winter of 1977-78 knocked so many MBTA RDCs out of service with ice damage to their engines or transmissions that Boston & Maine GP7s were borrowed to provide propulsion and became a comm... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP7 that has been drafted into MBTA commuter service leads a Rockport-Boston train of depowered RDCs past the boarded-up tower in Lynn, MA, on its way to North Station.

A pair of ex-PRR GP9s head up Conrail freight NHDA (New Haven/Cedar Hill to Danbury, CT) westbound under the wires at Milford, CT.

Conrail's Naugatuck Valley local freight behind RS3M 9946 is parked outside the station at Derby, CT, while the crew takes a lunch break. These EMD re-engined RS3s were common local freight power ... (more)

Bound for Portland, ME, an eastbound Boston & Maine freight out of Mechanicville, NY,coils through North Chelmsford, MA, behind a pair of GP40-2s and a GP38-2.

Kicking up fresh January snow, Boston & Maine train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC) rolls east through North Leominster, MA, behind three GP40-2s and a GP7. The B&M's GP7s we... (more)

Delaware & Hudson RS3 4023 rests inside the roundhouse at Rouses Point, NY, on a Saturday night.

Delaware & Hudson PAs on lease to the MBTA for commuter service meet during rush hour at CP11 in Weston, MA. The approaching train is a Boston-Framingham local behind D&H 16, while an inbound dead... (more)

New Haven EP-5 class electric 376 leads train 173, the Boston-Washington Senator, as it is framed by the Stratford, CT, station on a bleak spring day. This building, which still stands in 2020, is... (more)

As dusk falls over Readville, MA, New Haven Railroad semaphores guard the junction of the Dorchester branch (now the MBTA Fairmount line) and the Midland branch (now the MBTA Forge Park line).

A Penn Central Boston-Washington train rolls through the big cut at Groton, CT, behind a pair of ex-PRR E8s, which by the summer of 1969 had taken over the ex-NH Shore Line from FL9s. This cut was... (more)

On a foggy morning, a pair of Penn Central E44 electrics lead an eastbound freight through Earnest Yard at Norristown, PA. Those open auto racks wouldn't be around much longer as vandalism was on ... (more)

It's late October and most of the trees in this part of the Connecticut Valley have lost their leaves as Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA runthrough) makes its way south ... (more)

The conductor of Boston & Maine train EDSP (East Deerfield to Springfield, MA) rides the steps as his GP9/GP18 duo pulls a string of empty hoppers out of the Mount Tom power plant in Easthampton, ... (more)

A shortage of MBTA commuter power in early 1978 led to this combination of a Boston & Maine freight GP9 and a Canadian National steam generator car leading a train of former New Haven coaches on a... (more)