It's a beautiful fall day in the Hudson Valley, or maybe not, as a sudden snow squall envelopes a Metro North Croton-Harmon to Poughkeepsie shuttle at Garrison. The consist is typical of Metro Nor... (more)

The summer sun is getting low in the Hudson Valley as an evening rush hour Grand Central-Poughkeepsie commuter run cants into the curve at Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring. A smart looking pai... (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)

In its Penn Central days, one of the unique ex-New Haven Roger Williams RDC cab units departs Boston's South Station on an evening commuter run, mated with a standard RDC.

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 pair of Metro North's short-lived Budd SPV-2000s glides south along the Hudson at Cold Spring, NY, on a hot and hazy summer afternoon. They're running as a Pougkeepsie to Croton-Harmon shuttle, ... (more)

When they proved unreliable in intercity service on the New Haven-Springfield line, the Budd SPV-2000s purchased by Connecticut DOT for Amtrak worked briefly for Metro North in branchline service ... (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)

An inbound commuter train on the MBTA's Fitchburg line kicks up a healthy plume as it speeds along near Lincoln. There's an F40PH somewhere back in that cloud, pushing a train of RDCs that were re... (more)

Headed for their cars in suburban Val Royal, homeward bound commuters pay little attention to the ageless boxcab electrics that took them home from Montreal's Gare Centrale. CN 6715 was built in 1... (more)

A nice crowd waits at Roberts station in Waltham, MA, to board an inbound MBTA commuter train from Fitchburg on a fall morning. F40PH 1013 was the only unit of its class to receive the MBTA's hand... (more)

Built in May 1947 as GM&O F3A 880A. A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph