In 1994 a experimental 6-car train was built for JR Central by different manufacturers to test technology to be incorporated in future shinkansen trains operating at speeds of 300 km/h (186 mph) o... (more)

8-car shinkansen 500 series trainset V2 is leaving Aioi (Hyogo) with Kodama 753 to Okayama and Hakata in the evening sun.

The 16-car N700-7000 sets are operated by JR West on Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen services. 16 trains of this "N" series were built from 2007 to 2010 for JR West for duty mainly for Nozomi und Hik... (more)

19 of the 8-car N700-7000 series shinkansen were built for JR West from 2010 to 2012, for the "Sakura" and "Mizuho" services between Shin-Osaka and Kagoshima-Chuo. In contrast to the N700 series o... (more)

For me the best looking highspeed train ever, 500 series of JR West for 300 km p.h (design speed 320). Designed by the german industrial designer Alexander Neumeister, 9 of this 16-car trains were... (more)

The newest shinkansen type on the Tokaido and Sanyo line is the N700 A (A for advanced). This particular set G 4 was delivered from Nippon Sharyo on january 22, 2013. Externally the same as the N7... (more)

Shinkansen maintenance and sidings in Osaka Settsu with trains of N700, 700 and 700-7000 series, seen from the Osaka Monorail.

3 generations of Shinkansen trains in Shin-Yamaguchi station at 06.16 PM. Shinkansen N6 trainset of the N700 series is passing two "Kodama" trains with 300 km p.h, running as "Nozomi 58" from Haka... (more)

Shinkansen series N700 16-car set # Z 47 passes 3776 meter high Fuji vulcano with 270 km p.h. on a "Nozomi" service from Tokyo to Hakata. The 81 trainsets of this type, capable to run with up to ... (more)

This photo captures exactly how I feel when I think about the Rockies in the Summer time. Pine covered mountains and winding rivers surrounded by cool, damn, fresh air. Truly one of our country's ... (more)

Double deck TGV # 4722 of type TGV 2N2 (double deck second generation) Paris - Zürich, running with 140 km p.h. between Rupperswil and Lenzburg. This particular trainset was deliverd only two mon... (more)

Train 14 racing north along the shore of frozen Upper Klamath Lake near Algoma. The third unit is NPCU 90253, in tow to return north to Cascades service. Steam rising into the cold morning air f... (more)

Almost there
Amtrak's westbound “Empire Builder” slides along the waterfront at Edmonds, Washington, on April 16, 2010, and will soon be ending a long trip from Chicago to Seattle. ... (more)

A view looking straight down over the edge of the cliff at Pinecliffe, CO., of Zephyr #5 heading west over South Bolder Creek.

AMTK units 150 & 151 lead Zephyr #5 as they charge up the grade about to enter Tunnel 1. Shortly before this, the train was struggling to get up the grade at the Big Ten Curve, with two stacks of... (more)