In 1983-84 the MBTA purchased six GP9s from the Burlington Northern for use on trains of depowered RDCs. MBTA 1922, built as Northern Pacific 286, was one of two that received this maroon and gray... (more)

Train 405 arrives at Wachusset with HSP46 2014 showing off some holiday spirit.

MBTA FP-10 1109 heads up a Lowell-Boston commuter local entering the station at Winchester, MA, on a summer afternoon. A trio of depowered RDCs accommodate the riders.

As the sun drops low, an evening MBTA rush hour train of ex-New Haven coaches behind an F40PH passes the former NH Dover Street coach yard in South Boston, now used for rapid transit (Red Line) ca... (more)

Nearing the end of its year-long lease to the MBTA for Boston commuter service, Delaware & Hudson PA 16 speeds through Weston, MA, westbound on a long summer evening with Boston-Framingham train 4... (more)

A MBTA Commuter Rail train drops passengers off in Sharon.

Late on a summer afternoon, MBTA E8 4254 and its outbound rush hour train pause at Auburndale station in Newton, MA, on a Boston-Framingham run. The locomotive is ex-PRR, the coaches ex-NH, and th... (more)

The evening rush hour is over as an MBTA Stoughton-Boston local coils off the Stoughton Branch onto the Northeast Corridor mainline at Canton Jct., MA. An FP-10 cab unit that began life as a GM&O... (more)

On a nasty winter day, MBTA F40 1008 and its inbound Eastern Route commuter train cross the B&M Charles River drawbridge and enter Boston's North Station.

Windblown snow adds to the general meteorological unpleasantness as a pair of ice-encrusted MBTA commuter trains behind an FP-10 and an F40 await their departures from Boston's old North Station. ... (more)

A commuter bound for Plymouth, MA approaches John Mahar Hwy in Braintree with 1071 up front.

As heavy snow falls, an outbound MBTA commuter run from Boston to Fitchburg, MA, slows to pick up the well-insulated passengers waiting at the Waltham station. Former Boston & Maine RDC-1 6155 is ... (more)

With a puff of exhaust, MBTA FP-10 1110 accelerates past the former Boston & Maine station at Littlerton, MA, with a Fitchburg-Boston train of depowered RDCs. The stop here had been relocated to a... (more)

On a late winter morning, a single passenger awaits an inbound MBTA Haverhill-Boston commuter train at the modest station at Ballardvale, MA. The combination of a Boston & Maine GP7 and depowered ... (more)

HSP46 2003 accelerates out of Boston's South Station with an 8 car rush hour train destined for Providence, RI.