A Greenridge Farm Naturals' trailer, sporting the Chicago Cubs logo, is being towed on the back of the 9,000 foot-long San Bernardino, CA to Willow Springs, IL Z8 train. While a high priority inte... (more)

An approaching train lights up a CPL indication.

The Rural Retreat Depot is a historic railroad station at 105 Railroad Avenue in Rural Retreat, Virginia. Built c. 1870, it is one of the oldest railroad stations in Southwest Virginia, and one of... (more)

The charter train for SERVRAIL from Switzerland on the Bar to Beograd mountain line, from Bar till Bijelo Polje, border station to Serbia (158 kilometer), is leaving Virpazar after the crossing wi... (more)

The Mala Rijeka Viaduct (literally Little river) is a large viaduct on the Belgrade–Bar railway, located some 20 km north of Podgorica, Montenegro. With a length of 498 meter and a hight of 198 ... (more)

Locomotive Henchel BB1200 sits in the yard at Puget-Théniers as a storm brews in the mountains. The locomotive is primarily used to transport ballast cars along the line and sometimes switching d... (more)

The Rotonde ferroviaire de Chambéry, or simply La Rotonde, is a locomotive shed belonging to the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) in Chambéry in the French department of S... (more)

Former train station "Gare du Sud" in Nice, now used as media library and restaurant. The station was closed for trains in 1991 already, replaced by a new station some hundred meters awa... (more)

The 296-metre-long Sitter Viaduct in Appenzell was built between 1902 and 1904 for the meter-gauge Appenzeller Strassenbahn (ASt), mainly with tamped concrete arches, but also a 49-metre-long trus... (more)

Disused railroad material is also sometimes reused in Mauritania. Here at Ben Amira station, the building on the right is made from a former MIFERMA freight train carriage. The building on the lef... (more)

In Mauritania, disused railroad equipment, be it vehicles or superstructure material, is usually not scrapped but left standing somewhere. Near Boulenouar, at kilometer 96 of the 652-kilometer-lon... (more)

A train around two kilometers long takes a few minutes to pass by.

The large hall of Zurich's main station from 1871, today a large square, then with 6 head tracks. In 1902, the tracks were shortened for the first time and in 1930 they disappeared completely from... (more)

After several days of traveling through Mauritania, the group from Switzerland met the railroad for the first time at noon that day in Choum. A few minutes later, the empty ore train V5 from Nouad... (more)

In Mauritania, discarded rail vehicles are not scrapped but cannibalized and left somewhere. The remains of these two former diesel vehicles, known as draisines, can be seen in Choum. On the right... (more)