waiting for the next call on duty

VT 642 overtakes a loaded Train with autoparts les by two former DR V100 owned by Augsburger Lokalbahn

an ICE bound for Berlin descends the 3% ramp down the Frankonia Forest at just 70kmh

an ICE bound for Berlin passes the - now private - former Station of Lauenstein descending the 3% ramp down the Frankonia Forest at just 70kmh

Due to a Problem on the high Speed line, this ICE was re-routed over the old "North-south-line" and was around 50min late. Here, it crosses motorway A66

ICE Berlin - Vienna via Nürnberg winds ist way up the 3% ramp to cross the Frankenwald. Max Speed here is 70kph due to the tight curves. By 2016 this shall be replaced by a high Speed line with a... (more)

This STB Regioshuttle awaits its departure at Neuhaus (830m asl) in the Thuringia Forest

Autotrain crosses the motorway...

peat loading equipment (right) and peat transporting equipment (left). Unloading of the cars is by simply turning them around...

reserve

The peat hauling trains predominantly run in two. Just before sunset, two trains are leaving Edenderry power station for the bog at the distance of sight.

LM 355 brings the empty ash-train back to the power station at Shannonbridge. With these cars, each of them carries two covered moulds ("fly"-ash!), the ash is brought to an empty bog fo... (more)

LM 342 is basically a 1972-built Hunslet (GB-Leeds), which has just been rebuilt in Bord na Mona's Blackwater Workshops: new cab, new Cummin's diesel, new paint. Good for many more years of work i... (more)

LM 406 (LM=locomotive) brings in another load of peat for the power Station at Shannonbridge, one of three in Ireland which fires peat to produce electricity. The locomotive has around 10... (more)

LM 396 (LM=locomotive) brings in another load of peat for the power Station at Shannonbridge, one of three in Ireland which fires peat to produce electricity. The locomotive has around 10... (more)