Today at about 6:45 an Interregio from Zürich to Schaffhausen hit a S-Bahn train in Rafz. The current state of guesswork is that the Interregio was late and supposed to overtake the S-Bahn train,... (more)

A local train from Marseilles to Miramas just before arriving at Niolon.

Different power, for a change: A pair of GE U30Cs hauls an ore train towards Bafq, Iran.

Ce 6/8 II 14253 is a rare sight on swiss rails. On this saturday it made a few trips from Erstfeld to Airolo and back.

What a combo! A US built shunter in front of German "Silberlinge" passenger cars, a baggage car of unknown origin and a US style boxcar fitted with a generator haul pupils through the Iranian moun... (more)

Hauling iron ore across the arctic is a pretty tough job.

Actually these weather conditions are not that bad, since usually the area around the Torneträsk does not see the worst we... (more)

Having a windscreen wiper is sometimes really useful... A local train from St. Moritz to Tirano pushes this Spurpflug ("track plow"), which has multiple blades to clear snow even between the rails... (more)

1001 is close to the summit now at about 4710 m a.s.l.

FCCA's lower sections (well, close to 2000 m in this case) are still quite spectacular.

The hours (well, days, actually) of waiting in mostly bad weather have finally paid off: An empty iron ore train from Narvik passes us in full sunshine! By the looks of the engines the snow storm ... (more)

Locomotive graveyard in Fushë Kosovë, Kosovo. This yugoslav 661 clearly had some stories to tell, if only it could talk. It saw the fall of Yugoslavia, was used by the Serbian Railways (note the... (more)

Three X 73500 cross one of the many bridges over the Loire river on their way from Saint-Étienne to Le Puy-en-Velay.

60-524 hauls a local train from Dorud to Chamsangar, following the Sezar river.

Ok, this was one of the weirder days. So we met this railfan in Romania, and hunted a few Malaxa railcars in the morning. At some point he made a few phone calls, and got excited, because apparent... (more)

This FCCA train has just left the switchbacks of Casapalca and is now headed for Chinchan.

In addition to the pain in the head (due to the altitude if you didn't have time to acclim... (more)