Peru Rail's 653 hauls train 19 Puno - Cusco through the busy streets of Juliaca.

The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is a rare guest on the Lötschberg line. Today it was scheduled to run via the Gotthard route, but since that line is closed for several weeks due to a landslide,... (more)

The currently most powerful steam locomotives of the DFB, the HG 3/4, are at their limit. But those were the most powerful steam locomotives ever operating on this line, so there's no upgrade path... (more)

In 2010 there were two direct trains Landquart - St. Moritz in the morning, this is one of them. The Inn river makes sure that the trees are usually nicely frosted in the morning.

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Because San Bartolomé is a switchback without counterpart, trains have to be re-arranged before they can proceed to Lima. After an epic one-hour shunting operation 701 is finally being coupled to... (more)

A mixed freight train takes the curve west of Exshaw, AB.

A daily Casablanca - Oujda service (a 10 hour trip across Morocco), hauled by a DH 370 (EMD GT26CW-2), is crossing one of the new bridges near lake Idriss 1er. The lake is only a few years old, an... (more)

The three FCAB units Clyde GL26C-2 2005, Clyde GL26C-2 2010 and EMD GR12 2402 are catching the last rays of sunshine as they pull their somewhere around 2000 tonnes train uphill towards Ascotan su... (more)

A lucky shot - the sun had reached the bottom of the valley only a few minutes earlier. 1003 is crossing the Carretera Central twice over this steel bridge just before arriving at Rio Blanco.

The Haut-Bugey line is part of the new TGV connection between Geneva and Paris, which was put into service in December 2010 and cut the travel time by 20 minutes. The line was originally opened in... (more)

Ferronor's only EMD G22CU, originally built for FCAB but directly sold to Codelco, is working hard to get the sulfuric acid tank cars up to the Potrerillos copper processing plant. Unfortunately t... (more)

The sun has already set a while ago, but two GP20 and two GP38-2 are still shunting tank cars at Wilkie.

A Pilatus Bahnen railcar is headed down to Alpnachstad.

After basically spending two days in the freezing cold trying to get a good picture of a train on this bridge, all we got was this mixed freight train going the wrong way. Sometimes I really wonde... (more)

40-12 has just left the tunnel underneath the town of Sepid Dasht with the local train from Chamsangar to Dorud. Note the former DB Regio "Silberlinge" passenger cars.