regional Bayrischzell - Munich note the ancient infrastructure : wires, grade cross, fences, snow-plow-signs.

Two generations of traction

1116 043 leads a Austrian corridor train to Rosenheim - Innsbruck

ICE leaving to Hamburg

LM 355 brings the empty ash-train back to the power station at Shannonbridge. With these cars, each of them carries two covered moulds ("fly"-ash!), the ash is brought to an empty bog fo... (more)

rolling downhill with screaming brakes over a bridge and a high dam

this curve on the approach to the Inn river bridge in Rosenheim is so tight that it is restiricted to 80 km/h. An Intercity Cab Car leans into this curve.

UP 5552 brings up the rear of a looooooong doublestack for the LA ports

LM 396 (LM=locomotive) brings in another load of peat for the power Station at Shannonbridge, one of three in Ireland which fires peat to produce electricity. The locomotive has around 10... (more)

heavily working upgrade with the Inar mountains in the backdrop

waiting to depart with more brown coal to the power station

151 027 ( and the Koef on the adjacent track ) is dwarfed by the huge silos of the Rohrdorf Cement Plant

in the last evening sunlight, VT 25 rolls towards Zwiesel with threatening skies behind the church

Polish coal is delivered to the cement works at Rohrdorf.