ALCo went on to build 50 Pacifics for the Paris-Orleans Railway Nos 3591 to 3640 in 1921. They became SNCF Nos 231B601 to 650 and No 616 is seen leaving Brodeaux-St.Jean with a train for Lyon-Perr... (more)

The American built 141R class locomotives were not the first Mikes built in the USA for use in France. In 1918-19 ALCo built 150 with 1.65m driving wheels (5ft 5in - same as the 141R) for the Par... (more)

Following on from my Erie 0-8-8-0 Camelback here is a Pennsylvania & Reading Railroad camelback 4-4-0. The reason for the position of the cab was that the wide Wotton firebox designed to burn anth... (more)

One of the only three camelback articlated locos ever built, Erie 'Angus' type 0-8-8-0s Nos 2600-02 built by Alco in 1907 for pusher duty. These Mallets were rebuilt by Baldwin in 1921 as 2-8-8-2s... (more)

One of the ten Baldwin Hudsons built in 1937 for the New Haven RR prepares to work the 155 miles to Boston in c1939. Photographer unknown scanned from a post card size negative.

Several former South Eastern & Chatham Railway locos including D1 and F1 4-4-0s stand on the bridge over the River Thames outside Cannon Street station (right) in c1928. In the foreground the Eagl... (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)

Another exiled Swiss locomotive, former RhB 2-8-0 No 106 'Manuel Oraa' is seen on the La Robla railway turntable at Valmaseda. The metre gauge La Robla purchased seven of these engines keeping the... (more)

A battery of 'flat irons' stand at Valeciennes depot in northern France with Bo-Bo No BB-13033 nearest the camera and Co-Co No 14102 on the right. I believe there were a total of 323 of these 'Mon... (more)

The prototype PLM class 161-AE electric loco is seen at Chambery depot in 1963. This was the only loco of its type built in 1926 for the 1,500v DC lines.

This 2-6-2T was originally built by SLM Winterthur in 1905 for the Gurbetalbahn in Switzerland. It was from a batch of three pairs of similar engines that were for the TSB, GTB and EZB railways an... (more)

A scene at the loco depot in Lucerne showing 2-6-0 No 1602 and Ae 3/6 I 4-6-2 electric No 10314 (later renumbered 10614). No 1602 was built by SLM in 1898 and was the second engine in a series of ... (more)

SBB Be 4/6 2-8-2 (1B+B1) electric No 12326 has just arrived at Fluelen with a southbound train on the Gotthard line in c1927. There were 40 locos in this series, Nos 12303-12 that were of 1,760hp ... (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)

One of the 13 2-10-2 (1E1) 2,500hp electric locos, Nos 151-63, built for the opening of the Bern-Lotschberg-Simplon Railway in 1913 stands in Goppenstein station at the south end of the Lotschber... (more)