The 2.30pm Burlington to Middlebury 'Sugarbush Vermont Express' on the grade crossing over US route 7. photo by the late M.J. Fox.

On the last day trams ran in London, a number 38 for Abbey Wood loads up on the Embankment at Charing Cross. A photo by the late C.R.L. Coles. Trams have ofcourse more recently returned to the str... (more)

DB V200.0 diesel-hydraulic No V200 035 at Cologne Deutzerfeld depot flanked by class 78 4-6-4T No 78 094 on the left and class 03 Pacific No 03 245 on the right in May 1957. Photograph by Lawrence... (more)

Dark Satanic Mills II - an 8F 2-8-0 drifts downgrade near Linthwaite as it comes down the Colne Valley from Standege tunnel, summit of this tran-Pennine main line between Manchester and Leeds, wit... (more)

Cf du Nord 4-6-0 No 3.556 together with 2-8-0 No 4.061 at La Plaine depot, Paris. The 4-6-0 was one of the 150 built in 1908-12 to the design of Gaston du Bousquet that became SNCF class 230D whil... (more)

Belgian Railways three-cylinder 4-6-0 No 62.004 at Brussels Midi shed. This was a war reparations loco and was originally Prussian (KPEV) S10-2 No 1204 Cöln. Fifth-teen of these engines were hand... (more)

Three-cylinder, former KPEV S10/2 4-6-0, DRG No 17 258 leaves Nijmegen at 18.02 with an express from Amsterdam to Cologne in June 1935. Photo scanned from 116 size film (7 x 10cm) by the late Geor... (more)

ETAT railway four-cylinder compound 4-6-2 No 231-712 waits to leave Paris Saint Lazare with an express for Dieppe in 1935.This was another of the ETAT-TP type Pacifics first built in 1914 and even... (more)

This photo is from a postcard size glass negative by the late John Macartney Robbins who died in 1953. It shows former Ouest Railway 'Bicyclette' 2-4-0T No 21-629 at Sotteville depot during a visi... (more)

Many years ago I purchased a number of negatives at auction that had been taken by the late O.S. Nock, the famed British railway author and signal engineer at Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. Among... (more)

ETAT railway four-cylinder compound 4-6-0 No 230-678 waits to leave Paris Saint Lazare with a passenger train in 1935. This engine was from a class of 87 built in 1908-12. Photo from a 116 size fi... (more)

Nice looking Bessemer 2-8-0 No 360 stands at an unknown location in the 1930s. It was built by ALCo in 1913.

In contrast to the ancient 0-6-0 that I have just posted the latest in Paris-Orleans electric locomotives was photographed by George Grigs on the same afternoon. The 35 locos in this series became... (more)

SNCF, former Cf du Nord, 4-cylinder compound 4-6-0 No 230.D.89 stands at Fives locomotive Depot in Lille during an RCTS visit.Photo by the late Peter Gray.

Est Railway 4-6-0 No 3.628 at La Villette shed, Paris in 1935. There were originally 390 of these four-cylinder compound locos built for the Est Railway in 1901-12. They became SNCF type 230B and ... (more)