A long string of the New Haven Railroad's "washboard" MUs led by a coach/baggage combine lays over outside the New Haven, CT, station. In NH days these Pullman-Standard cars from 1954 wo... (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)

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)

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 pair of Erie Lackawanna/NJDOT U34CHs and their trains await the evening rush hour at Hoboken Terminal. The big U-boats handled all diesel trains out of Hoboken at the time.

A set of ageless Erie Lackawanna MUs pose beneath the trainshed of Hoboken Terminal, a regular sight for more than fifty years that is now becoming a long-ago memory.

On a bleak winter day an unpatched Jersey Central GP7 now working for Conrail approaches the station at Cranford, NJ, with a westbound commuter train, probably a Bayonne-Cranford shuttle. A second... (more)

A Boston-Providence commuter train operated by Penn Central for the MBTA passes the old wooden tower at Mansfield, MA, as it slows for a station stop. The engineer's window of ex-PRR E8 4264 shows... (more)

A three-car set of former Reading RDCs bound for Reading Terminal in Philadelphia cross the Passaic River lift bridge on their way from the Harrison layup yard to Newark's Penn Station, where they... (more)

In the early 1970s, Budd RDCs covered all Boston & Maine commuter runs out of North Station. This pair made up a South Acton local seen pulling into the Kendal Green station in the town of Weston.... (more)

A set of Boston & Maine RDCs that has just left the station at Lowell, MA, on its way to Boston hums past Lowell Tower on its way out of town.