Boston & Maine GP9 1707 leads the way with Hillsboro Branch local freight NA-1 out of Nashua, NH, as it heads west through South Merrimack, NH, on a perfect late summer morning.

Conrail TV-6 is on the last lap into Boston as it paces traffic on the Massachusetts Turnpike at the Auburndale commuter station in the western suburbs. B23-7 2015 leads a five-unit lashup of four... (more)

Perhaps symbolizing the state of US rail commuter service before the publicly funded revival that began in the late 1970s, the collapsing building in this photo was an active station! It's Silver ... (more)

An impressive lashup of five GP9s and a GP18 lifts Boston & Maine train RM-1 (Portland, ME, to Mechanicville, NY) up the hill at Shelburne, MA, as it climbs out of the Connecticut Valley and into ... (more)

Brightly painted Bay Colony RR Alco S2 1052 leads a fan trip out of Braintree, MA, on the shortline's Plymouth branch, which was freight-only at the time (the MBTA later restored commuter service)... (more)

It's April, and the Long Island Sound beach at Rocky Neck in East Lyme, CT, is empty, but that won't be the case in a couple months. Meanwhile, Amtrak F40PH 309 hurries along with a westbound Nort... (more)

An MBTA FP-10 and a string of leased GO Transit coaches await their departure from Lowell, MA, for Boston. The little machine to their left was a British Leyland railbus that ran for a short time ... (more)

Seven assorted Boston & Maine and Conrail diesels led by B&M GP38-2 206 head up a loaded unit coal train at Gardner, MA, headed from western Pennsylvania to a generating station at Bow, NH. Pooled... (more)

Delivered by Budd in February, 1935, the Boston & Maine’s Pioneer Zephyr was the third North American streamliner to be built, preceded by the Union Pacific’s M10000 and the Burlington... (more)

Boston & Maine train CPSP (Newport, VT, to Springfield, MA, via CP/B&M) pauses for orders at the White River Junction station before heading south on the Connecticut River Line. Two B&M GP9s and a... (more)

Boston-Chicago piggybacker TV-9 is underway west though the suburbs on Conrail's former Boston & Albany line at Wellesley, MA. This was once four-track territory to accommodate commuters. The trio... (more)

A GE trio comprised of one of Conrail's ten humpbacked C32-8s and a pair of C30-7As is almost done with its work as their eastbound intermodal train eases down the lead track into Beacon Park Yard... (more)

Three-car trains of PCCs were a common rush hour sight on the MBTA's Boston College/Commonwealth Avenue line (now the MBTA B Line) in the late 60s/early 70s. The lead car on this train wears a sho... (more)

One of the double-ended PCCs that came to Boston secondhand from Dallas glides beneath the Orange Line el structure as it departs the Arborway terminal in Jamaica Plain, headed for downtown Boston... (more)

Carrying bridge traffic moving between Conrail at Rotterdam Jct., NY, and the Maine Central at Portland, ME, Boston & Maine train SEPO-B rolls through Lowell, MA, behind a GP40-2 trio. The modest ... (more)