It's december with snow on the ground and a light snow in the air. Steamer K 563, built in 1899, is ready to depart with a Christmas special.

Winter has struck Denmark, and many railways are strugling to keep up with the timetable. But the 1160 horsepowers of locomotive DL 10 keeps the snow away from the line.

The "lightning train" was built in 1935 and taken out of service in 1973. The train was then put aside in 30 years before the national railway museum began a 6 year long and expensive renovation. ... (more)

Italian built MG 5604 on its way with af fast train from Århus to the danish capitol Copenhagen

North Korea dictator Kim Jong-ll leaving Vladivostok in his 14-cars amoured train after a summit with russian president Vladimir Putin. - For security reasons the north korean cars have no marking... (more)

North Korea dictator Kim Jong-ll leaving Vladivostok headed for north korean capitol Pyongyang in his 14-car amoured train after a summit with russian president Vladimir Putin. No one was allowed ... (more)

In 1968 North Vietnam railways built this Mikado class steamer of parts from scapped engines originally delivered in 1953 by Société Alsacienne de Construction Mecaniques in France

A christmas-special run by the national railwaymuseum. During a stop the passengers could cut their own christmas tree. Steamer K 563 was built in 1899 in Germany.

Steamer E 991 looses its running permission at the end of 2009. In some unknown future maybe we will see E 991 (built 1947) being renovated and back on the tracks again.

NRS 107 was built in 1889 by english company Sharp Stewart. NRS 107 was taken out of service in 1940, and can now be seen - from all angels - on the national dutch railwaymuseum in the town of Utr... (more)

A train like this was a common sight in Denmark for decades. Now diesel-electric MO 1954 (built in 1935) and the two passengercars are preserved in running order at the national railway museums di... (more)

A royal train can be a short one. The first car WRm 003 is used by staff and security. The second car S 001 is the private car of danish Queen Margrethe II. On this testrun the cars was hauled by ... (more)

Danish State Railways has bought 83 dieseltrains of type IC4 from italian company Ansaldobreda. The yellow fields are planted with rape-seeds, that will end up as foodoil.

Danish State Railways has bought 83 dieseltrains of type IC4 from italian company Ansaldobreda. Only a few is running op until now due to late delivery, technical problems etc.

A remote area in the mountains of Tibet at altitude 4.000 meters (12.400 feet). The train is on its way from Tibet capitol Lhasa to Xining. The 3 dieselengines of type C38AChe were built in 2006 b... (more)