Orange You Glad You Saw Them. On July 17, 2024, the MBTA announced that the last of the 120 Type #12 Hawker-Siddeley cars (01280-01281) were transported off the property for scrap. The cars... (more)

Rio Grande in Massachusetts PNLX 2107, a leased MP20GP-3, gets the wire train moving north at West Medford. This rebuilt GP38-2, along with a widecab GP40, were leased by the MBTA to move ... (more)

Tower Inbound. Orange Line passes the large concrete tower at Wellington Yard as it arrives Wellington Station to Forest Hills. The train consists of new CRRC-built "#14 Orange Line&qu... (more)

At Long Last. After 30+ years of planning, re-planning, re-planning the re-plan, frivolous lawsuits, construction fits and starts, delays, more delays, cost overruns, etc and so on, the Gre... (more)

"Morning Orange Line Pull-Out"

One of the many early morning Orange Line "pull-outs" passes the large concrete tower at Wellington Yard as it departs for the mai... (more)

Retired and Revenue. MBTA 01232 sits on the end of a line of Hawker Siddeley Orange Line cars north of the MBTA Wellington Repair Shop, presumably on the dead line awaiting scrapping. An... (more)

Inbound just north of Wellington.

Since the MBTA Green Line Extension project has been shutting down the Lowell Line on weekends, Amtrak must detour down the Western Route via Reading. Here, Amtrak 694 dips into the Wellington Tun... (more)

As the sun drops low, a trio of Boston & Maine GP9s power train SAED (Salem to East Deerfield, MA) through West Medford, MA. At the time this train handled much of the B&M's freight business in an... (more)

A quartet of Boston & Maine GP9s lead train EDSA (east Deerfield to Salem, MA) past the Tufts University campus in Medford, MA. Most of the cars will be set out in the B&M's Boston freight yard in... (more)

Midday on a Friday, an inbound Orange Line train clatters into Wellington, the primary hotbed of activity on the line. The Wellington Carhouse facility is adjacent to the station and an elevated w... (more)