At last - cool enough for steam to show, damp enough to leave the diesels in the garage, sunny enough to light up the Dales. I think I've gone to heaven. Great photographic conditions returned tod... (more)

Steam - and Christmas is four days off.

The Jung Mikado #5 is shunting in the Capivari station, exactely as she did some thirty years ago when she was still in active service on the Dona Teresa Cristina Railway. A Bernd Seiler charter.

At daybreak the crew of UP 844 brings the heat up, evidenced by the dancing flames under the fire box.

On this mild yet humid evening, UP #844 and UP #6936 race out of Brighton, CO at track speed as they bring back people to Denver from the Daddy of Em' All Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo in Cheyenne,... (more)

Narrow gauge Garratt, NGG 16 number 153 works hard, leaving Vialima siding climbing to the summit before descending to Hoekfontein station at sunset

During what is arguably the best NRHS convention ever, the great articulated is racing through the kudzu and clay on a hot summer day pleasing the fans on board and on the ground. I love 611 but ... (more)

A brace of Garratts raise steam ahead of the day's work on the yards at Bulawayo, one of Southern Africa's key rail junctions. The engine on the right is a class 16A freight loco, the Garratt on t... (more)

C 57 135 "Pacific" steamlocomotive (builder Mitsubishi 1940) on the turntable in the "Railway Museum" Saitama. This very sucessful type pulled the very last official steam train of Japan National ... (more)

A shedman catches the first rays of the sun at Bulawayo engine shed as no fewer than six Garratt locomotives are prepared for the days' shunts. The loco nearest the camera is a 15th Class Garratt,... (more)

The crew get the first train of the operational

The morning FES mixto heads east to San Salvador from Sitio del Nino across a black lava bed. The 14 is an FES original as indicated by the link on the front pilot instead of a knuckle coupler. ... (more)

41 018 is a former steamlocomotive of DB and operated today by Dampflok Gesellschaft München.

On 17 January 1925, the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l’Est took delivery of their first high-speed locomotive at the Epernay works, the 241 A1, number 41 001. The engine they acquired provide... (more)