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)

Chunky tank 99 6001 waits for departure time at Alexisbad with the 18.42 to Harzgerode.

The 14.47 Gernrode to Hasselfelde service train, caught near sunset at Stiege.

A study in light and shade as a diminutive tank loco. awaits departure with a mixed train photo charter.

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)

Class pioneer 99 222 heads a Steam Loco Safari Tours photo charter through the forest between Drei Annen Hohne and Elend.

2-6-2 tank engine of HSB is preparing to pull a special train from Nordhausen up to the Harz mountains. The locomotive was built by Krupp/Essen in 1939 for the Nordhausen-Wernigerode Eisenbahn-Ges... (more)

Mallet 99 5906-5 runs side by side with 2-6-2t 99-6001-4 in a recreation of the Alexisbad dual departure that sadly no longer occurs in regular service. The mallet is on the Selke Valley line le... (more)

Chunky 2-6-2t 99-6001-4, the regular power on the daily Gernrode to Hasselfelde train, hustles towards the conditional halt at Drahtzug on a fine winter morning.

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)

An 0-4-0+0-4-0T Mallet makes a parallel departure with a 2-6-2T from Alexisbad. The high line leads to Harzgerode, whilst the lower line heads off to Eisfelder Talmuhle. Fellow photographer, Canad... (more)

It's getting late in the afternoon, the light is failing, and snow is beginning to fall as a Wernigerode to Nordhausen train accelerates after a brief station stop at Benneckenstein.