The SAR 16DA 879 Pacific locomotive helped by a 15CA is leaving the Hercules station with a passenger train.

The privately owned German Pacific locomotive 01-202 is getting prepared in the Haltingen engine shed before hauling a special steam charter.

The CHE is watching you! Two steamers from the Ifrain Alfonso sugar mill are resting at Diez de Octubre after a heavy downpour. The #1637 is an Alco from 1925. The engine in the back is the 1850 b... (more)

A few minutes before sunrise.

An unidentified Garratt locomotive class GMAM is shunting in the Mafikeng shed. A few hours later the same locomotive will leave the city with a long freight train

It's barbecue time on the footplate of the TCDD 56 548. Chicken steaks and onions are being roasted in the firebox of the locomotive. I must admit that the sandwich tasted very good together with ... (more)

The striking semi-streamlined P36, named after its Kolomna project number and nicknamed Pobeda (victory), was the USSR's final express passenger steam locomotive. Slightly less powerful but faster... (more)

Hot Shot #1 is a GE center cab engine built in 1957. It was acquired from Arkansas Limestone Railroad.

Back in the 1980's most railfans traveling to South Africa to chase steam tried to stop at Kraankuil in the middle of the Karoo and to spend a night in the hotel near the railway station. From the... (more)

Local passenger service in Cuba ! Before being converted to a passenger coach, this was a boxcar used for freight.

The impressive 241 P 17 has traveled many kilometers during this week end. Saturday, it came from Paris to Mulhouse. Today, it returned from Mulhouse to Le Creusot where the locomotive is based. I... (more)

Somewhere at a crossing in a small city in the USA in 1950? No, this is Cuba in 2003 where such scenes could be captured every day.

The Eritrean Littorina were built by FIAT in the 1930's. They have been in regular use on the Eritrean Railways until the mid 1970's. Three Fiat-built Littorina railcars survived the civil war and... (more)

The Dakota hotel which is located at Zoledowo in Poland is designed in the Wild West style with many memorabilia reflecting the theme. In the car park is an unidentified former PKP TKt48 2-8-2T s... (more)