At dusk, Conrail trailer train TV-5 departs Boston's Beacon Park Yard for the west behind a quartet of GP40-2s. CSX closed this yard in 2012 under pressure from real estate developers and in 2020 ... (more)

Overall view of MBTA's Red Line Ashmont-Mattapan Line servicing facilities. 3254 has arrived from Ashmont and is navigating the turnaround loop for its return trip.

Pan Am Railways "BODO: spent all day Tuesday in Boston, canned on Mainline 2 between Tower A and FX interlockings. Usually, this is a nocturnal run consisting of power and cars interchanged i... (more)

Two months into Penn Central operation, New Haven RS3 556 leads a local freight through the NH's South Boston coach yard with Broadway Tower (once equipped with over 400 levers) in the background.

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)