The rush hour is over, the sun is setting, and this Fitchburg-bound MBTA commuter train has to itself the platforms at Boston's North Station.

Late in the era of steam-heated passenger trains, MBTA E8 4264 pops off while waiting to depart Boston's South Station with a Framingham local.

During the year that Conrail was the contract operator of the MBTA's South Side commuter service, a couple Conrail-owned ex-NYC E8s usually supplemented the MBTA's own ex-PRR Es. On the final week... (more)

At Park Street Station, one of the many thousands of users of T system - Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - expect to board your train in green line, the oldest subway line of the MBTA. ... (more)

Four of the MBTA's 19 FP-10s were originally delivered with steam boilers for use with steam-heated ex-NH coaches, as in the case of this pair ready to depart Boston's South Station for Providence... (more)

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, Boston & Maine F7 4265 rests inside the roundhouse at the B&M's Boston Engine Terminal.

A Penn Central GP40 joins a New Haven Century 425 and two NH U25B's in this power set making a move into the service tracks at Dover Street Yard in South Boston. Fifty years later freight activity... (more)

Within weeks of Penn Central's takeover of the New Haven, ex-PRR E8s began to take over Boston-New Haven passenger runs from the NH's own FL9s. A year after the merger, sets of FL9s and E8s in thr... (more)

On January 20, 1984, a predawn fire destroyed the wood pile trestle approaches to the Charles River drawbridge outside Boston's North Station, cutting off access to the station for 15 months while... (more)

In the mid-1980s, Amtrak Northeast Corridor trains exited Boston via the MBTA Fairmount branch as the NEC mainline between Back Bay and Forest Hills was relocated from an embankment to an open cut... (more)

MBTA train 1408 off the Fitchburg Line arrives at Boston's South Station as they cross the Charles River with a rebuilt GP40 on the shove.

A pair of Acela trainsets await their next departure at Boston's South Station.

A classic Boston PCC streetcar arrives at the Ashmont/Peabody Square Station at the the northern end of the MBTA's Mattapan Trolley Line. This two mile line running between the Ashmont and Mattapa... (more)

With the massive Fort Point Channel drawbridge as a background, EMD-engined Amtrak RS3m 106 heads for South Station to grab an arriving equipment draft, which it will pull back to the Southampton ... (more)

A pair of Penn Central E8s working in MBTA commuter service await the evening rush hour at South Station in Boston. The reconstruction of the mid-1980s completely changed the look of this 1899 ter... (more)