Windblown snow adds to the general meteorological unpleasantness as a pair of ice-encrusted MBTA commuter trains behind an FP-10 and an F40 await their departures from Boston's old North Station. ... (more)

An MBTA Lowell-Boston commuter train behind FP-10 1102 passes stopped Boston & Maine freight EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA) led by GP18 1755. The action occurred just outside the North Billeri... (more)

As heavy snow falls, an outbound MBTA commuter run from Boston to Fitchburg, MA, slows to pick up the well-insulated passengers waiting at the Waltham station. Former Boston & Maine RDC-1 6155 is ... (more)

Boston & Maine GP9 1808 and local freight BO-1 out of Boston make their way through a late season snowfall, westbound outside Waltham, MA, on the former Fitchburg Division. The snow-covered track ... (more)

Boston & Maine train EDSA (East Deerfield to Salem, MA), with one of the B&M's six GP18s on the point, has a Delaware & Hudson RS11 joining the B&M Geeps that were the usual power on this job at t... (more)

Springfield-New Haven shuttle train 407, with a pair of RDCs typical of consists on the route at the time, crosses the Farmington River at Windsor, CT, on a summer afternoon. The handsome stone vi... (more)

Back when RDCs covered the bulk of service on Amtrak's Springfield-Hartford-New Haven line, the pair making up a late afternoon southbound run paused at Berlin, CT. The lead car in this set began ... (more)

With downtown Boston in the background, an assortment of MBTA commuter sets led by F40PHs and FP-10s pass their weekend layover at the Southampton Street coach yard in South Boston.

The late afternoon sun illuminates the New England autumn foliage at Sharon, MA, as an MBTA Boston-Providence commuter train hurries by behind F40PH 1010.

This was once one of the most common rail sights across the country, a plain-vanilla GP7 or GP9 heading up a local freight trailed by a caboose. Not any more! Boston & Maine GP7 eased local freigh... (more)

Simultaneous MBTA departures from Boston's North Station have just crossed the Charles River drawbridge and now pass terminal Tower A on their way out of town. FP-10 1104's train was headed for Lo... (more)

Boston & Maine SW1 1128 and the crew of the Bemis Branch local freight run around a boxcar before easing it into an industrial spur in Waltham, MA. This short branch was a stub-end remnant of the ... (more)

Three months before the end of passenger service on the Boston & Maine's Central Massachusetts Branch, the single RDC that comprised the evening commuter run between Boston and South Sudbury plows... (more)

One of the last two wigwag crossing signals on the Boston & Maine was located at Sanbornville, NH, on the Conway branch. On this summer day it was activated by train DO-1, the Dover-Ossipee (NH) g... (more)

A GP9 duo leads Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) south through Greenfield, MA, past an old lineside phone box from the pre-radio era. The 1800-series number ... (more)