An outbound commuter rail train prepares to depart South Station. On the neighboring track an Amtrak Acela Regional is set to board for Washington DC.

A Stoughton to Boston train heads towards the Stoughton Branch junction with the Northeast Corridor, making a station stop first at the beautiful New Haven depot.

An evening boat ride on the Saugus River gave me the opportunity to watch trains running through the marshes up close. Here, HSP46 2013 shoves a train back to Boston.

The MBTA Cape Flyer is pulling into the station in preparation for the evening departure to Boston.

One of MBTA's newest locomotives pulls out of North Station on the dot beginning its commuter run.

Well Look At This, Some Really Nice Stuff In Selkirk Sunday Night, Two Brand New MBTA MPI HSP46 Units That Came In On Q372 The Day Before And A Unpatch Burlington Northern SD40-2 Still With The Wh... (more)

MBTA 2012 sits in Selkirk yard attached to a handful of CSX units.

Fresh out of the paint shop.

Primed and lettered.

MBTA's only MPIHSP46 on the property pushes its test train down the Fitchurg Division as it passes the former B&M/NH depot on its way back to North Station.

The new face of the MBTA, sporting the new paint scheme as decided by the people of Massachusetts. Number 2001, the MPI/GE built HSP46, was out for clearance testing on the Fitchburg line. As soon... (more)

The latest concoction from Motive Power is the HSP46 for MBTA. These new units are quite a departure from the MP36 line, and feature engines, generators, and AC traction gear from GE, rather than... (more)