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)

With the Rhode Island state capitol in the background, the engineer of a southbound Amtrak train looks back over the platform during the stop at Providence, RI. In 1986 the tracks through downtown... (more)

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)

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)

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)

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)

With a GP40-2 and two GP9s up front, Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) rolls past the shop lead at Billerica, MA, on its way to Boston via the MBTA Lowell line.

Blue GP9s congregate at Ayer, MA, as Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) behind three of them passes the single unit assigned to local freight AY-1. By this time Ayer tower her... (more)

The last Boston & Maine through trains between Boston and Mechanicville, NY, once the railroad's most important freight haul, were Delaware & Hudson connections AP-3 and AP-4. On a rainy afternoon... (more)

Before the current and much larger Amtrak/MBTA Route 128 station and parking garage were opened in 2000, this modest pseudo-Colonial structure built by the New Haven RR in 1965 served passengers t... (more)

During the 1983 season, the Cape Cod & Hyannis tourist railroad utilized leased Bay Colony Alco switchers to power its trains. Here the last trip of the day on the Falmouth branch cruises past an ... (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.