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)

Train 417 passing thru the Phoenix Street RR Crossing about stop for the Shirley Station.

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)

An interesting contrast between old and new. MBTA HSP46 2023, built in 2014, leads an almost 2 hour late Cape Flyer as it passes Cape Cod Central's "Scenic Train" with a pair of ex New H... (more)

The MBTA CapeFLYER (known as the "Flying Clam" to locals) crosses over Cohasset Narrows just after crossing the Cape Cod Railroad bridge and taking on passengers in Buzzards Bay. The for... (more)

A solo Penn Central RDC covering a midday branchline run between Boston and Needham Heights, MA, pauses at Needham Junction, in former New Haven territory. The operator has set the lower quadrant ... (more)

The Cape Flyer is tied down in Hyannis after traveling from Boston. Later in the evening, the train will make the return trip. Sadly it will be delayed due to striking a pedestrian in Wareham.

Before they were famous! MBTA Commuter Rail EMD F40PH-2C 1054 was awaiting departure from Worcester, MA on Train 566 on Tuesday, October 26, 1999. This unit was one of ten recently rebuilt to F40P... (more)

Haverhill local No. 203 crosses over at CPF-Frost after departing Lawrence station led by one of the newly rebuilt F40PH-3C's from MPI.

MBTA FP10 1150 leads a trio of former New Haven coaches on a Boston-Framingham commuter train rolling through Weston, MA, on the former Boston & Albany. The wisps of steam coming from the cars sho... (more)

Train 427 leaves a station stop at Ayer, MA after dropping off commuters headed home from Boston.

After receiving a rebuild in Boise, ID by MPI, MBTA F40PH-2C 1054 is seen on Mass Coastal in Middleboro. The new paint job and LED headlights surely give the 32 year-old locomotive a refreshed loo... (more)

An MBTA commuter train behind an F40PH en route from Boston to Fitchburg, MA, accelerates west through East Somerville on a summer afternoon. Today the B&M freight bridge in the background is gone... (more)

A single passenger waited on the platform and a late season snow was falling as MBTA F40PH 1014 eased its Boston-Attleboro (MA) train to a stop at suburban Canton Junction. Five years after Penn C... (more)