A lucky shot of an entirely uniform MD-trainset in XMPR livery. It gets ever harder to catch one without any new gray-blue-yellow 'DPR' cars. Shown here is an afternoon Trieste Centrale-Venezia Sa... (more)

Land of the Multiple Units. Quartet of high-speeds shown under 'Cabina A' ex-control tower: Frecciabinca 8820 (strictly speaking these E414s are not part of Trenitalia's AV - Alta VelocitĂĄ - mean... (more)

Cogwheel set rides the grade just after sunrise, 3 of these SLM-Winterthur built twins served the line from it's opening in 1970 till last summer when the line was dismantled for renovation. This ... (more)

Ballast train powered by VL11M 137 and 011 climbs the north ramp of Volovets pass.

First lights tinted the scenery a pleasing light blue. Northbound intermodal rolls by a plowing tractor: In the process of snow removal from roofs its role is to shove any snow out from the yard h... (more)

The train is switched and prepared for another run to the hill. 3 minutes left to departure and I still had to walk 500 meters to the spot I'd planed: as my camera was already in hand with the 70-... (more)

Second to last downhill train approaches the tunnel in last lights suitable for shooting anything that moves. On point with the since then dead Mk45 2002 pulling - I mean slowing - a half-baggage,... (more)

As eastbound REX 'Geravy' gets deeper into Hron valley, villages get rarer and rarer until it reaches TelgĂĄrt: after it departs TelgĂĄrt-stop it'll round the loop-tunnel, pass over two viaducts a... (more)

Sunday-only-express 'Ć ariĆĄan' is shown here just before departure to Bratislava. R17611/-12 are a pair of trains for students traveling home on Friday and then back on Sunday. The trail of light... (more)

Sunday southbound suburban headed for Budapest/Nyugati-terminal slows for Nagymaros to pick up passengers.

ZSSK 350-series spent their last years of international service hauling a pair of Metropolitan eurocitys (EC 278-279) and the Hungaria eurocity (EC 172-173) to and from Budapest. As new timetables... (more)

1099 007 turns out of Erlaufklausetunnel as the driver pulls notch by notch on the first major grade heading back to St. Pölten. The name for the train 'ÖtscherbĂ€r' was found by ÖBB back in 20... (more)

Solotvyno-Lviv sleeper service make its scheduled stop at Berehove, once an important transfer station to the narrow gauge railway along Borzhava river. Nowadays there are only 2 pairs of long dis... (more)

Passengers are waking up as Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi - Rakhiv sleeper twists up in Prut valley in heavy shower. Next major stop is thermal/ski resort Vorokhta.