On the succesful test run round the Lägern, oilfired ex French Railways SNCF "Mikado" 141 R 1244 is standing beside former SBB diesel shunting locomotive Bm 6/6 18511 from 1962, now privately own... (more)

First test ride of a doubledeck commuter trainset DPZ of the first generation (built between 1989 and 1997) with a newly installed vehicle with low floor access platforms. This red car B 264 was b... (more)

ICE Kobenhavn H - Hamburg Hbf. More at www.jstrains.sk

This freight train has just emerged from the fog near the Brocken summit as it has been stopped by two soldiers of the GDR border troops. They will now very carefully inspect the complete train a... (more)

Fast passenger train from Bydgoszcz Glowna to Lublin.

IC from Covilhã to Lisboa

Back in the GDR, border soldiers regularly observed the freight trains bringing supply for the troops based at the summit of the Brocken mountain in the Harz. The former border to West Germany was... (more)

B 3/4 1367 with the "Winterdampf rund um den Napf" (Round trip round Napf mountain,through Entlebuch and Emme valley) storming with full speed on the main line from Burgdorf towards Herzogenbuchse... (more)

Standard gauge wagons loaded with logs are carried on transporter wagons on the 760mm gauge Zillertalbahn. Here O+k loco D8 heads away from Jenbach at Rotholz.

Brand new tilting train ETR 610 002 from ALSTOM Savigliano on the homologation run is speeding through the Rhone valley with 100 miles per hour. The train is built for 250 kilometer per hour maxim... (more)

Historical railcar M262.1117 on the stone bridge above Praha-Hlubocepy, in the western outskirts of Prague. The line from Praha-Smichov to Praha-Zlicin is also known as 'Semmering of Prague' due t... (more)

Norwegian tilting high-speed train on demonstration run in Sweden.

They do have demo units in Europe. I was lucky enough to catch this one while gadding about by train. Well, a least it sounded good. These were the first asynchronous AC diesels and were never ... (more)