A colourfully dressed lady wanders across the station yard at Ghinda in front of the disused turntable, while a Mallet tank shunts freight cars.

Small Mallet 440.008 engages in some shunting at Ghinda, while large Mallet 442.59 waits to take a train down to the coast at Massawa.

Four sets of motion fly simultaneously in this panned shot of double-headed Mallets.

Parallel departure from Eisfelder Talmühle, with 99 5906 on a photo charter and 99 7234 on a Nordhausen to Wernigerode passenger working.

Clagging nicely, Mallet 99 5906 climbs through a rock cutting between Drahtzug and Alexisbad.

In a scene little changed from the communist era, a Mallet tank skirts the river Selke as it runs into the village of Strassberg. The only difference is that this is a photo charter and we won't g... (more)

Another angle on the Alexisbad parallel departures. See also Alan Crotty's 224513 and Michael Allen's more)

Mallet 99 5901 heads a photo charter between the houses on Kirchstrasse. With a dozen or more scheduled steam trains passing through here every day, I wonder how often the window cleaner has to ca... (more)

Little has changed in Alexisbad station since the end of Communism in 1989, except for a few more lights on the platform. Mallet 99 5906-5 prepares, once again, to tackle the 3.3% climb up the Ha... (more)