MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
In 1965 the MBTA (or "T" for short), began financial assistance to Boston area commuter railroads, and in 1973 purchased much of the ex-New Haven and NYC lines from successor Penn Central, which operated into South Station. In 1975 track and equipment from the B&M which operated into North Station was purchased. After Conrail was created in 1976, Big Blue came looking for a larger operating subsidy, so the operating contract was switched to the B&M, and in 1986 was switched to Amtrak, and finally in 2003 to MBCR, a joint partnership of Bombardier, Veolia Transportation and Alternate Concepts Inc.
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F40PH #1011 is backing it's train past the interlocking tower and signal bridge #7 as it eases into South Station in Boston, MA on August 3, 1981. |
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F40PH #1012 is pulling a string of ex-New Haven coaches on a train out of South Station in Boston on August 3, 1981. The unit shows off the yellow nose originally adorning these units. |
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F40PH #1002 is pushing inbound (to Boston) train #1406 out of the station and under I-495 at Littleton, MA on July 10, 2004. |
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F40PH-2C's #1050 and 1063 are laying over at the terminal in Worcester, MA on November 11, 2006. Worcester is the outer end of service on the old Boston & Albany mainline. |
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F40PH #1016 leads an inbound train of new P-S coaches over the drawbridge and into Boston's South Station on August 3, 1981. |
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Eastbound train #1406 comes to a stop at the small station in Ayer, MA on June 16, 2001. The train is being pushed by F40PH-2C #1075. |
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F40PH #1017 leads westbound train #1405 at Shirley, MA on November 11, 2006. This line is also the freight main for Guilford's Pan Am Railway between Ayer and Fitchburg. |
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FP10 #1101 pulls an inbound train of leased GO Transit coaches under signal bridge #9 as the train enters South Station in Boston on August 3, 1981. |
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FP10 #1109 pulls a train out of South Station in Boston, MA on August 3, 1981. The unit sports the trademark metal grilles over the windshield to protect the crew from rocks and other debris. |
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FP10 #1112 at Boston on 8/3/81. These units were rebuilt from ex Illinois Central (GM&O) F3's in 1979. During the rebuild process the unit lost it portholes and acquired bug eye marker lights and a bulge at the rear due to accommodate the HEP unit. |
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MBTA acquired a couple of freight units for work train service. Here is GP9 #1921 (ex BN) painted in the old B&M livery complete with a minute man on the nose, on a ballast train at Lawrence, MA on June 15, 2001. |
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GP40MC #1136 is pushing train #1406 east at Shirley, MA on November 11, 2006. These units were rebuilt by AMF from ex-CN widenose GP40-2W's. |
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GP40MC #1129 pulls into Ayer, MA with train #1405 on April 7, 2001. Just east of town at CP Willows the MBTA diverges to the south and Guilford continues east to Lawrence. |
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A string of RDC-1's pull a morning train into Boston, MA on August 3, 1981. The MBTA demotored many of these cars turning them into locomotive pulled/pushed coaches. |