In India it is customary for Loco Pilots (the driver / engineer) to give a green flagged signal to all passing trains. Here the Loco Pilot of the pair of ALCOs on the late running Manmad to Secund... (more)
The mid morning Pune to Miraj passenger train accelerates over Shindavane viaduct, having dropped off track workers at the far end for some maintenance.
Digitally controlled ALCO 11391 blasts out of one of the short tunnels at Shindavane with an Ahmedabad to Bangalore Express train.
With the motors in full dynamic braking, two WDG4s descend the Shindavane Ghat towards Pune with a boxcar rake.
With 32 ALCO cylinders hard at work, 14798 and 14668 from Erode shed lift a lengthy goods rake over the impressive viaduct at Shindavane in the early morning sunshine.
A former East German "ludmilla" pauses at the rather forgotten station of Vizvar, right next to the Croatian border with the slow and winding stopping train from Sopron to Pecs on a cold autumn mo... (more)
If Germany had have ordered ALCO engines - this is what they might have looked like! A Polish TEM2 (a Russian design based heavily on the ALCO switchers of the 1950s) now finds itself in the priva... (more)
A somewhat faded ET22 brings a very long tanker train into the yard at Jawarzno Szczakowa on a frosty November morning.
Former German 232 locomotives have no found work in Hungary - back working express passenger trains as nature intended. Here the former 232 543 arrives at Szombathely on a cold winters morning wit... (more)
Neighbours side by side; in a show of international co-operation, Slovakian 350 020 is working EC275 throughout from Prague to Budapest, whilst Czech 242 271 is working a domestic Bratislava to Ko... (more)
As dawn breaks over the city, the Rail Jet train to Munich is ready to depart.
With the castle as a background, 754 027 runs light into Zvolen main station to work a train towards Filaka.
Running as a "fire train" for a preceeding steam excursion, 751 196 awaits the road at Handlova in a brief glimpse of sun.
37259 gets ready to take over Network Rail test train duties from 37423 (on the other end) during a reversal.
37609 waits time at Manchester Oxford Rd with the Track Recording Coach.
