Late evening, PA1 ex ATSF in D&H paint scheme working under MBTA flag arriving Bostons South station

An ice-encrusted MBTA FP-10 has completed its run from the suburbs and lays over at Boston's North Station awaiting the next trip. The cars behind it are ex-New Haven mainline coaches.

The lower quadrant semaphores that guarded the approach to Boston's South Station from 1899 to the mid-1980s frame a departing MBTA commuter train led by an FP-10.

An MBTA commuter train consisting of depowered RDCs behind an FP-10 has just left the station at Gardner, MA, on its way to Boston. Two months later this trackage would become freight only as the ... (more)

On a summer evening, a short northbound MBTA local out of Providence approaches the station at Canton Jct., MA, to pick up a couple waiting passengers for South Station. GP9 7555 is a former New H... (more)

During the MBTA's short-lived service extension to Gardner, MA, GP9 1925 (ex-BN/NP) leads a train of depowered RDCs making the turn back to Boston. Note that the first two Budds are ex-CP cars al... (more)

In 1984 the MBTA acquired six GP9s of NP and GN heritage from the Burlington Northern to pull neutered RDCs in Boston commuter service. Ex-BN 1921 headed up an inbound train of Budds on a summer m... (more)

With the impressive clock tower of a 19th century mill as a backdrop, an MBTA Haverhill-Boston commuter run pauses at the Lawrence, MA, station. A sharp-looking Paducah FP-10 leads a string of lea... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP7 working in MBTA commuter service approaches Boston's North Station with a train of depowered RDCs. These GP7/RDC combinations were common for a couple years after 1978 as the ... (more)

The hard winter of 1977-78 knocked so many MBTA RDCs out of service with ice damage to their engines or transmissions that Boston & Maine GP7s were borrowed to provide propulsion and became a comm... (more)

A Boston & Maine GP7 that has been drafted into MBTA commuter service leads a Rockport-Boston train of depowered RDCs past the boarded-up tower in Lynn, MA, on its way to North Station.

Delaware & Hudson PAs on lease to the MBTA for commuter service meet during rush hour at CP11 in Weston, MA. The approaching train is a Boston-Framingham local behind D&H 16, while an inbound dead... (more)

A shortage of MBTA commuter power in early 1978 led to this combination of a Boston & Maine freight GP9 and a Canadian National steam generator car leading a train of former New Haven coaches on a... (more)

In the winter of 1978 the MBTA was perennially short of power for its commuter trains and sometimes borrowed Amtrak RS3s to help out. Amtrak 100 teamed up with an MBTA GP9 on this Needham Branch t... (more)

MBTA F40PH 1011 pauses at Lincoln, MA, while working a Fitchburg-Boston local in a January snowstorm.