Blue morning. Webb Rail LLC - WEBX's former New York Central Railroad Budd built Pullman (observation/diner/sleeper) "Babbling Brook" (WEBX 800007) spent the night in Amtrak's Southampto... (more)

Freight at Beacon Park... In 2020? After dropping rail up north, MBTA's empty welded rail train is seen sitting crewless in the abandoned CSX Beacon Park Yard. The plan was originally to... (more)

The MassDOT/MBTA Rail Extra is seen across the Boston University Bridge in Boston. The extra leased power was added as the North Side crew used it to meet the train at CP3. The train is passing ov... (more)

A former New Haven GP9 leads a Penn Central equipment draft across the Fort Point Channel drawbridge at the throat of Boston's South Station. The coaches are ex-NH "American Flyer" cars.... (more)

With Boston's landmark Hancock Building in the background, an Amtrak E8/F40 team is about to depart the open air platforms at Back Bay with a corridor train for Washington. Tracks in this area are... (more)

MBTA GP18 #904 rests at Boston Engine Terminal in Somerville, MA on August 29, 2009.

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)