The loaded and empty ore trains between the town of Nouadhibou on the Atlantic and the area of the mines in the Zouérate region have always been used by the locals, like her on the train M4, as t... (more)

There is a large underground water reservoir near Boulenouar at kilometer 96 of the 652-kilometer railroad line from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. This is used to supply the villages and towns along th... (more)

The approximately 2 kilometer long loaded iron ore train M4 from the mines near Zuoérate and M'haoudat has completed most of the 16 to 18 hour journey and is about to reach its destination. A her... (more)

Dual power electro/battery locomotive Eea 936 # 131 of StadlerRail pulls 4 low loader cars with two second class cars of a "Giruno" highspeed train RABe 501 for the SBB, as train 69235 f... (more)

Test train 97123 from Sulgen to Romanshorn Seewiesen at the pond near Erlen. The two articulated railcars RABe 526 # 767 and # 798 of Thurbo in multiple control were traveling back and forth all d... (more)

Dual power electro/diesel locomotive Aem 940 # 004 "EDITH" of the Sersa, built by Alstom as Prima H4, pulls the diesel shunter Tmf 232 # 311 "Matheos" as train 59244 from Gossa... (more)

Since change of timetable on december 15th, some Interregio trains between Zürich and Constance and vice versa are operated with a so called "hybrid push-pull train", mixed with doubled... (more)

Euro9000 multisystem electric/diesel locomotive 2019 # 314 "Bull" of the HSL Logistik, rented from the European Loc Pool (ELP) and built by StadlerRail in Valencia/Spain, pulls the empty... (more)

The Siemens "DTZ" (doubledeck trainset) RABe 514 # 052 of the SBB got a new publicity paint scheme for the ZKB (Zürcher Kantonalbank/Bank of canton Zürich). The train is running the S8... (more)

In Mauritania, the disused permanent way material such as steel ties and rails is deposited next to the tracks and remains there. Some of the ties are reused for simple shade, as markings or even ... (more)

Engineer of the SNIM on the GPL-15T BB # 207 before departure in Ben Amira to Boulenouar.

On this day, Mauritania's “Train du Désert” set off for the first time with a foreign tour group (Servrail from Switzerland) from Ben Amira (PK 393) westwards to the port of Nouadhibou, runni... (more)

This is the last turnout of Boulenouar (PK 96) on the east side. The 652-kilometre-long railroad line through the Mauritanian desert is single-track throughout, with crossing points for the trains... (more)

ALSTOM Prima H4 Aem 940 # 004 "EDITH" of the Sersa is running light as train 59054 from St.Gallen freight yard via Winterthur-Kloten-Zürich Oerlikon to Schlieren, between Winterthur and... (more)

Re 620 # 050 (Re 6/6 # 11650) "Schönenwerd" of the SBB pulls the freight train 63180 from St.Margrethen via Romanshorn VL-Winterthur-Kloten-Regensdorf to the Limmattal shunting yard, be... (more)