The prototype PLM class 161-AE electric loco is seen at Chambery depot in 1963. This was the only loco of its type built in 1926 for the 1,500v DC lines.

Another photograph by the late Peter Handford showing a Reichsbahn 2-10-0 that had been overtaken by the advancing British Army. According to Peter, the engine had run out of water being blocked i... (more)

From the camera of the late Francis R. Hebron, one of the two LMS prototype 1,600hp diesel-electric locos No 10001 climbs Camden bank as it leaves Euston station in London with an express for Blac... (more)

DR Class 86 2-8-1T No 86 1501-5 with the 16.48 Schlettau to Crottendorf branch train races a Trabant car in the DDR. photo by the late M.J. Fox.

Here is a photo from a negative in my archive that I know little about. I am guessing that it is taken in New York State. The frist four locos are Alco RS-32 from a batch of ten built in June 1962... (more)

B&O 4-6-2 No 5227, built by Schenectady in 1919, is seen in her prime in the early 1920s at Sandy Hook, east of Harpers Ferry beside the C&O Canal before it closed in 1924. Photo printed from a 10... (more)

Another vintage French photo with a twist. One of the 50 4-6-0s built to the Scottish Highland Railway 'Castle' class design by the North British Locomotive Co., in 1911 for the French ETAT railwa... (more)

As I believe to-day is the last day of the KCR here is another Harry Daventry shot. Former British War Department 2-8-0, now KCR No 24, is believed to be waiting at Lo Wu with a train for China.

Boston and Albany, an NYC subsidiary, 4-6-2 No 597 waits to leaves Albany in the 1930s.

Yet another Baldwin locomotive built for service on the Western Front in World War I. Seventy of these small ten-wheelers, nicknamed 'spiders', were built in 1917-18 for the British Army. After th... (more)

Gresley LNER Class A1 4-6-2 No 4477 'Gay Crusader' departs from Kings Cross with the 5.45pm express to Newcastle. An Ivatt Class N1 0-6-2T is in the background. Photo by the late George Grigs.

Several former South Eastern & Chatham Railway locos including D1 and F1 4-4-0s stand on the bridge over the River Thames outside Cannon Street station (right) in c1928. In the foreground the Eagl... (more)

The American built 141R class locomotives were not the first Mikes built in the USA for use in France. In 1918-19 ALCo built 150 with 1.65m driving wheels (5ft 5in - same as the 141R) for the Par... (more)

Another exiled Swiss locomotive, former RhB 2-8-0 No 106 'Manuel Oraa' is seen on the La Robla railway turntable at Valmaseda. The metre gauge La Robla purchased seven of these engines keeping the... (more)

Jean-Marc Frybourg has recently loaded two photos of this engine after its removal from a plinth, where it had stood for 40 years, with the possibility of it being restored to working order. Here ... (more)