1102 was built by English Electric in Queensland in 1966 and bought by DTG in 1989. Restoration begun around 2009 and the recent certification for mainline running being celebrated by the special ... (more)

Union Pacific no. 7980 leads Stacks westbound up the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains through the Truckee River Canyon on the Roseville Subdivision.

For my 10'000th contribution on Railpictures.net I choosed this moonlight picture: The full moon above the 2622 metre high Muchetta mountain (Rhaeto-Romanic for fire extinguisher or candle... (more)

GM&O came in from the northwest, A bit player on a large stage in those days, a little shabby and run down but what great character. In the immortal words of Tom Sink, a “soulful old road”.

Portrait of the Slovenian steam locomotive 33 037. The locomotive has been built in 1944 by Henschel and Son in Germany and delivered to the the Yugoslav Railways JZ.

The Decapod 33 037 is crossing a nice viaduct near the village of Most on its way to Nova Gorica.

Southern Railway GE B30-7A1 3500-3521. Externally, the B30-7A1s resemble the B23-7 model; only their 3500-series numbers are a spotting feature.

This picture from 3 June 1995 shows one of the first scheduled ICE I after the timetable change in the Burgdorf curve.

Kansas City Southern's "Veterans Unit" breaks the still of the night as it leads Norfolk Southern train 219 past a well-placed roadside decoration in Tallapoosa, Georgia.

The canyon below Chestnut Mountain on Bozeman Pass is filled with the sounds of a hard-working Burlington Northern freight pounding up the eastbound grade on July 2, 1994. The location is at the o... (more)

The night is falling on the rural station of Montbarrey as a Paris-Lausanne TGV passes at 160 kph. Soon, the train will reach Mouchard where the "hump" starts. The hump is the grade that... (more)

A Pontarlier Neuchâtel service passes under the Joux Castle. This is still in France, the Swiss border is about 7 km away at Les Verrières. The section between Pontarlier and the border is electri... (more)

Inbound and outbound Metra commuter trains meet at 16th Street Tower on the Rock Island District during a Friday afternoon rush. Both trains are powered by MP36PH-3S locomotives, with 416 sporting... (more)

Triple voltage TGV 115 on a Lausanne Paris service is entering the Joux Forest area.

The mist rises above Barr Lake as the morning Amtrak screams past at dawn, startling some ducks that were doing some morning laps.