Passengers scramble to get or off a modern streetcar at Nice, France as an intercity train passes overhead.

A street juggler entertains motorists and bicyclists as broad gauge and narrow gauge streetcars cross in Rome, Italy.

One of Spain’s renfe high speeders slips out of hospital-clean Puerta de Atocha station at Madrid, Spain Sept. 20, 2014. They commonly travel at 300 km’s per hour, or 180 mph.

With builder’s plate No. 10, 0-4-4-0 Ffestiniog “Merddin Emrys” departs Blaenau Ffestiniog for the run down to the Wales coast at Porthmadog on Oct. 9, 2014. The railway has been under ste... (more)

A two-car Arriva self-propelled train prepares to leave Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, for its run back to Llandudno on Oct. 9, 2014. Such trains are quite dependable in U.K. Two-foot gauge Ffestini... (more)

Generally running the western side of United Kingdom, a high speed Virgin train comes to stop at Carlisle on its way from London north to Edinburgh.

A northbound Rhatische Bahn has departed Filisur, Switzerland and is headed for Chur. That isn’t graffiti on the electric; RhB sells advertising space its motors.

During its short layover on one of 28 tracks at Rome, Italy’s Termini station, a bullet nose black and red Trenitalia gets its windshield washed.

Line up of trains having arrived at Venice, Italy’s, Santa Lucia station, Sept. 30, 2014.

Logs from Headquarters, Idado, sawmill cross one of many trestles on the Camas Prairie at Konkolville on Aug. 17, 1977, headed west to Lewiston.

After a layover at Grangeville, Camas Prairie’s regular train with UP 246 in the lead returns to Lewiston, Idaho over Lawyer’s Creek trestle near Craigmont. One of the largest steel structure... (more)

Still some 24 miles from destination Grangeville, CM’s UP 246 East crosses one of dozens of trestles near Ferdinand, Idaho on Aug. 15, 1977.

Headed for Grangeville, Camas Prairie’s eastbound passes Craig Jct., Idaho on Aug. 15, 1977 with UP 246 in the lead because the crew’s preferred its brake valves.

Camas Prairie’s regular run to Grangeville crosses Hwy. 95 near Nucrag, Idaho as it climbs out of Lapwai canyon on Aug. 15, 1977. The rear of the train can be seen under the 1765, third unit.

Two Great Northern F’s await their next assignment at Portland, Oregon on April 11, 1969. Portland’s Union Station Tower is in the background.