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)

Amtrak’s Portland Extra is seen crossing the Charles River with a very rare P32 leading. This is the first ever P32 to lead on the Grand Junction running track, or anywhere on any of the north s... (more)

The Boston edition of the "Lake Shore Limited" has departed Back Bay Station and is passing through Fenway running parallel to the Mass Pike. The final destination for the train is Chicago. ... (more)

The New Haven Railroad once maintained a vast complex of freight yards, wharf trackage, and freight houses in South Boston, no trace of which remain today as the site is dominated by the high rise... (more)

A Boston snowstorm is winding down as Amtrak's South Station switch crew grabs a draft to pull it down to the Southampton Street yard. RS3M 106 was one of three Amtrak RS3s that were re-engined wi... (more)

Overhauled! After being overhauled for what felt like a long time, MassDOT engine 1136 is seen pulling Keolis train 193 towards Beverly, MA out of North Station. Note the Zakim Bridge/I-93 in the ... (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.

With a puff of smoke, MBTA GP9 7539 accelerates its train out of Boston's South Station at rush hour. Both the Geep and the coaches trailing it are of New Haven heritage. The locomotive would soon... (more)

I don't know whether there was a special group on board or the crew was just feeling festive, but this edition of the Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited saluted the Christmas season as ... (more)

Following a February 1978 blizzard that dumped over two feet of snow in the Boston area, the Boston & Maine assigned locomotives to pilot lightweight RDC consists to prevent derailments at ice-pac... (more)

One of Amtrak's two Bombardier LRC locomotives poses at South Station in Boston before departing for New Haven on train 153, the Beacon Hill. The year-long LRC lease did not lead to any US sales b... (more)

The MBTA's first F40PH seemed to be a fitting subject for my one thousandth photo on this site. MBTA 1000 was on its way out of Boston's South Station at rush hour with a string of ex-New Haven co... (more)