On a quiet Sunday afternoon, a lineup of Boston & Maine RDCs await the Monday morning rush hour inside the roundhouse at Boston Engine Terminal. The B&M had the largest fleet of Budds with 109 car... (more)

Boston commuter trains of the mid-1970s featured an assortment of second- and third-hand equipment that the MBTA had acquired from Penn Central and the Boston & Maine. A minimally repainted ex-PC ... (more)

On a crisp winter afternoon, Amtrak F40PH 211 and the standard NEC Amfleet consist rattles the 1892 station at Canton Junction, MA, with a southbound train out of Boston. The scene is very differe... (more)

An MBTA commuter train on the coastal Rockport/Newburyport line glides along the tidal North River at Salem, MA. Equipment is an FP-10 cab unit with a set of depowered RDC coaches. Come the weeken... (more)

The MBTA's first F40PH clatters across the Conrail diamond at Walpole station with a Boston- Franklin train. When Walpole station was built in 1883, this was a crossing of the New York & New Engla... (more)

A westbound Boston & Maine freight out of Portland headed by GP38-2 204 steps across the Merrimack River at Haverhill, MA. The photo was taken from a parallel highway bridge.

Boston & Maine GP40-2 304 heads up train MERU (Mechanicville, NY, to Rumford, ME, via B&M/MEC) as it accelerates east after making a setout at Lowell, MA.

A 1941-built car from Boston's first order of PCCs leads a pair outbound on the Riverside Line past the landmark Chestnut Hill Waterworks building.

The end of PCC operation was near on the MBTA's C Line (Cleveland Circle/Beacon Street) as this pair departed the Coolidge Corner stop in Brookline on an inbound run.

Canton Viaduct was built by the Boston & Providence Rail Road in 1835 to support the tiny locomotives of the day, and now, well past its 175th birthday, it carries Acelas. Back in 1980 one of the ... (more)

A pair of MBTA PCC cars hum along Centre Street in Jamaica Plain on their way from downtown Boston to the Arborway terminal. This route, the surviving part of which is now the MBTA E Line, was cut... (more)

An MBTA PCC car has just departed Cedar Grove station on its way to Mattapan via the Mattapan-Ashmont "High Speed Trolley Line". Elderly PCCs still run here in 2017, but now they're rebu... (more)

MBTA FP-10 1101, which began life as a GM&O F3, propels a Boston-Fitchburg commuter train through Waltham, MA. At this point in its life the 1101 was a little faded, but nine years earlier when th... (more)

MBTA FP-10 1100, which began life as a GM&O F3, heads up a set of leased GO Transit coaches on a morning rush hour Framingham-Boston train. These smart little cab units brightened the Boston commu... (more)

A handsome set of Boston & Maine second generation power (two GP38-2s sandwiching a GP40-2) ties back onto train MEPO (Mechanicville, NY, to Portland, ME) after making its Lowell setout on an earl... (more)