On its way from Grand Central Terminal to Springfield, MA, New Haven Railroad train #50 passes the south end of Cedar Hill Yard in New Haven, CT. A pair of GP9s leads a consist that's heavy with h... (more)

Four of the MBTA's 19 FP-10s were originally delivered with steam boilers for use with steam-heated ex-NH coaches, as in the case of this pair ready to depart Boston's South Station for Providence... (more)

Bound from South Station to Needham Heights, MA, with an evening rush hours train, the class unit of the MBTA's FP-10s splits the manual block semaphores at the junction at Forest Hills where Need... (more)

Boston & Maine train LASE (Lawrence, MA, to Rotterdam Jct., NY) rolls west through Shirley, MA, behind a B&M GP38-2 and and Maine Central (ex-D&H) U23B. The lead unit's pilot suggests that there's... (more)

On a fine fall afternoon, a Maine Central GP38, a Boston & Maine GP38-2, and a B&M GP40-2 head up a westbound freight near Gardner, MA, on the B&M Fitchburg Division mainline.

On a quiet Sunday afternoon, Boston & Maine F7 4265 rests inside the roundhouse at the B&M's Boston Engine Terminal.

A solo Boston & Maine RDC running as a midday Woburn-Boston local swings off the two-mile Woburn Branch and onto the mainline at Winchester, MA. The MBTA dropped service on the branch in 1981 and ... (more)

The crossing watchman has lowered the manual gates for former New York Central RS-3 5527 and its rush hour train at Needham Center, MA, on an August 1971 evening, Because the ex-New Haven Needham ... (more)

The setting could be the Adirondack branch in upstate New York, but it's the Needham line in suburban Boston, where a former New York Central RS-3 burbles towards Needham Junction with an evening ... (more)

This train posing at the White River Junction station before dawn looks like the southbound Montrealer, but it's actually a deadhead equipment move. A derailment a day or two earlier had stranded... (more)

Shortly after dawn on an early fall morning, Amtrak's northbound Montrealer approaches the Central Vermont station at Montpelier Jct., VT, where a small crowd waits to board. Nearly forty years la... (more)

A Delaware & Hudson PA, heading up a Boston-Framingham commuter train while on lease to the MBTA, smokes it up at CP 11 in Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany.

During its year-long lease to the MBTA, Delaware & Hudson PA 17 hustles west through Newton, MA, paralleling the Massachusetts Turnpike with a Boston-Framingham commuter train.

A Penn Central GP40 joins a New Haven Century 425 and two NH U25B's in this power set making a move into the service tracks at Dover Street Yard in South Boston. Fifty years later freight activity... (more)

A Boston-bound freight headed up by a New Haven GP9/RS11/GP9 trio rolls through the station at Providence, RI, on a spring morning. Only the 7500-series number on the third unit indicates that Pen... (more)