A Boston & Maine GP7 working in MBTA commuter service approaches Boston's North Station with a train of depowered RDCs. These GP7/RDC combinations were common for a couple years after 1978 as the ... (more)

Boston & Maine GP9 1734 poses at the back door of the Boston Engine Terminal shop before making its next run west to Mechanicville, NY. By this time the handsome "Bluebird" paint scheme ... (more)

MBTA trolley line car 3283, seen here at the Reservoir carhouse, was built in 1949 for the Boston Elevated Railway and lasted in MBTA service until 2007. It was built with a wooden body to help in... (more)

A pair of ex-PRR E8s lead a Penn Central Providence-Boston commuter train under one of the semaphore signal bridges that guarded the approaches to Boston's South Station. These lower quadrant sema... (more)

As the morning rush hour winds down at Boston's South Station, a long Penn Central commuter train that has turned on the loop backs into a platform while a GP9 stands by. Ex-PRR E8s and ex-NH GP9... (more)

A set of three P42 locomotives and two non-powered control units from the Downeaster are seen crossing the Charles River from Cambridge into Boston. The "Grand Junction" line that cuts t... (more)

A set of three P42 locomotives and two non-powered control units from the Downeaster are seen crossing the Charles River from Cambridge into Boston. The "Grand Junction" line that cuts t... (more)

In the winter of 1978 the MBTA was perennially short of power for its commuter trains and sometimes borrowed Amtrak RS3s to help out. Amtrak 100 teamed up with an MBTA GP9 on this Needham Branch t... (more)

Its journey from Washington nearly complete, an Amtrak corridor train enters the old Back Bay Station in Boston. The smoke screen in the background was left by a just-departed MBTA local. The trac... (more)

Amtrak’s Portland Extra is seen crossing the Charles River with a very rare P32 leading. This is the first ever P32 to lead on the Grand Junction running track, or anywhere on any of the north s... (more)

The Boston edition of the "Lake Shore Limited" has departed Back Bay Station and is passing through Fenway running parallel to the Mass Pike. The final destination for the train is Chicago. ... (more)

The New Haven Railroad once maintained a vast complex of freight yards, wharf trackage, and freight houses in South Boston, no trace of which remain today as the site is dominated by the high rise... (more)

A Boston snowstorm is winding down as Amtrak's South Station switch crew grabs a draft to pull it down to the Southampton Street yard. RS3M 106 was one of three Amtrak RS3s that were re-engined wi... (more)

Overhauled! After being overhauled for what felt like a long time, MassDOT engine 1136 is seen pulling Keolis train 193 towards Beverly, MA out of North Station. Note the Zakim Bridge/I-93 in the ... (more)

Conrail piggyback train TV-6 has nearly completed its run from Indianapolis to Boston as it pulls down the lead into Beacon Park Yard behind a C30-7 and two EMDs.