A new electricity pylon has blown down across the main line at Saltley. Luckily it hit nothing, and nothing hit it. The photo was taken several hours after the event, and the top of the pylon has ... (more)

Better than a window seat? The folk riding on the outside of the loco get a great view, but also get a close up view of birds, insects and dust. Metre gauge Hitachi No 2507 passes Malibag with the... (more)

4 Vep EMU No 7822 leaves Effingham Junction on a London Waterloo to Guildford service. Several more 3rd rail EMUs are visible around the depot.

Still plenty of locos in the Santa Fe blue and yellow livery at Barstow in 2000.

1207 is a 2-4-0 tank, built by Henschel in 1912. It was pilot loco at the mill at Ruben Martinez Villena, and I remember it had great difficulty stopping the trains on the greasy rails.

Union Pacific locos 3191 and 8232 are seen at Roseville in 1998.

Hubli depot had 3 of these lightweight YL 2-6-2 metre gauge locos, with one normally on shed, for overhaul. I visited with 3 friends in 1989, but found no YLs present. Next morning, the shed forem... (more)

2 feet 6 inch gauge ZDM3 No 701 leaves Kandaghat with the Himalayan Queen, 1210 Kalka to Shimla. The train takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to do the arduous 60 miles.

A pair of QJs are on the long climb of the Jingpeng Pass at Xiakengzi. It is well below freezing, note the ice above the cab, and on the tender of the leading loco.

Amtrak FL9 No 486 arrives at Croton Harmon with the northbound Adirondack. The car park (parking lot) is nearly empty as this was a Sunday.

"Not much room in here!". The driver (engineer) of a 4 wheel electric loco looks quite cramped as it passes by at Fuli Mine at Hegang.

760mm gauge EMU 411 902 nears Trencianska Tepla on the 6 km run from Trencianske Teplice. The car was built in 1951.

7348 is seen at Pingzhuang opencast mine. The yellow object in the middle of the picture also seems to be a loco!

ChS4 locos No 063 and 208 are seen at the north end of Kiev station in the early evening (the station clock shows the correct time). The letters before the loco numbers are in Cyrillic, but transl... (more)

2 feet 6 inch gauge C2 0-8-0 No 03 waits for it`s train of limestone wagons to emerge from the tunnel at Dahuichang. They will be hauled on a cable to the loco. A couple of stray wagons litter the... (more)