Six locomotives pull the Los Angeles to Willow Springs Z-train through Kingman as it rounds the curve before entering Slaughterhouse Canyon. This train is scheduled as a peak season train with 69 ... (more)

Through the Mauritanian desert, about 10 kilometers east of the Ben Amira monolith, a two to 2.5 kilometer long loaded iron ore train approaches from Zouérate/F'derîk to the port of Nouadhibou a... (more)

Empty ore train V3 (vide train 3) including some loaded water tankers running through Boulenouar at PK 96 of the 650 kilometer long single track railroad from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. Pulling are ... (more)

On this day, Mauritania's “Train du Désert” set off for the first time with a foreign tour group (Servrail from Switzerland) from Ben Amira (PK 393) westwards to the port of Nouadhibou, runni... (more)

It was certainly a surprise to hear about then to actually see three IC "Deathstars" assigned to T-Bird service, albeit briefly, while the new kids on the block the much bigger AC44C6Ms ... (more)

When I walked into the Railway Service Contractors facility in Kansas City, Kansas, the last thing I expected to see was the Alco FA2 Western Maryland 303. I had last seen this engine in Barton, M... (more)

Calumet & Hecla Mining Company 0-6-0 "Osceola" had a total engine and tender weight of 222,500 lbs., and a tractive force of 34,400 lbs. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, whe... (more)

A pair of Colorado Pacific Rio Grande SD70's back down to there train after spotting a single car at Poole Chemical.

Albany & Eastern Railroad B23-7 4201, sitting in the AERC's facility in Lebanon, was built by General Electric in April 1978 for Conrail (CR 1904). It was later sold to Metro-North (MNCW 1904, la... (more)

The SDL40-2 CC # 114 built by EMD in 1993 pulls the about 2 kilometer long empty ore train of the SNIM (Société Nationale Industrielle et Minière) from Nouadhibou to Zouérate at line kilometer... (more)

There is almost no wind in the Mauritanian desert as the about two-kilometre-long empty train from the port of Nouadhibou to the ore mine near Zouérate approaches Pk 404 between Ben Amira and Cho... (more)

When the approximately 650 kilometer long line from the port of Nouadhibou to the ore mine near Zouérate was built in Mauritania between 1960 and 1963, MIFERMA (Société anonyme des Mines de fer... (more)

Euro 9000 multisystem locomotive 2019 # 314 "Bull", ownend by European Loc Pool (ELP) and built by StadlerRail in Valencia/Spain, rented by HSL Logistik, pulls the about 2400 ton sugar b... (more)

SDL40-2 locomotive CC # 107 of the SNIM in shunting duty at F'derîk.

GPL-15T locomotive BB # 204 of the SNIM parked in Choum.