Another photo taken by the anonymous photographer with the post card size film camera in the 1930s showing the famed Danforth Cooke 4-2-4T No 1 "C.P. Huntington" of 1863 that is now exhibited at t... (more)

Here is a second view of former United States Army Transportation Corps S160 2-8-0 No 1734 taking water at Civitavecchia station with an 'express' from Rome to Pisa in the aftermath of World War I... (more)

Another view of Be 5/7 No 163 standing in Goppenstein station in c1927. Compare this photo with my view taken 50 years later (photo id 290641) in 1977. Scanned from a quarter plate film negative b... (more)

On seeing the excellent photo by Matthew Wilson (Photo id 268229) of a Midland Mainlne HST at the former Midland station at Nottingham I thought members might like to see a shot taken 75 years ear... (more)

Swiss Federal Railway 4-6-2 electric loco No 10647 waits to leave Luzern Haupt Bahnhof with a train for Zurich. This design of loco first appeared in 1921. Photo by the late C.R.L. Coles.

Another of the 40 inside-cylinder 4-6-4Ts built by Beyer, Peacock & Co., in Manchester, England for the Dutch State Railways in 1913-16 is seen at Hook of Holland depot together with Werkspoor 4-4... (more)

This Re 4/4 I Bo-Bo was already ten years old when this photo was taken of it waiting to leave Luzern with an express train probably to Basel while Ae 3/6 II No 10426 built in 1924 waits with anot... (more)

A Nickel Plate 'Berkshire' gets tonnage moving in another mystery photo. I am guessing that this is in New York territory, but someone will surely recognise that distinctive electric catenary.

Here is another photo of one of the Woodhead route electric locos. This time one of the seven express passenger Co-Co machines No 27002 seen pulling away from Penistone with a London Marylebone to... (more)

Erie FA-1 No 725 is being serviced at Marion, Ohio in 1952. Photographer unknown.

Australian super-power. A pair of NSWGR 4-8-4+4-8-4 Garratts Nos 6034 and 6011 head a goods train on the line from Molong to Orange. Scanned from a colour neg by A.E. Reynell.

Here is a really old American photo showing 4-4-0 No 6 of the Jacksoville, Tampa & Key West Railroad. The photo would have been taken sometime betwen 1885 when the line opened and soon after 1893 ... (more)

A former Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 2-4-2T No 50818 performs station pilot duty at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire as an LMS class 4 2-6-4T reverses out of the station. This was one of the ma... (more)

The sad sight of a Southern Pacific 'Atlantic' waiting for the breakers torch at an unknown location by an unknown photographer in the 1950s.

Here is another of the 1,981 2-8-0 locomotives built by Baldwins for service in France from 1917 onwards. This one was built for the British Army ROD and became part of Nord Railway stock after th... (more)