Heavy shunting loco D.145.2039 is seen in the port area of Messina, on the island of Sicily in 2004.

JS 2-8-2 No 8338 was one of 8 steam locos being prepared for their day`s duties at Pingdingshan in November 2003. They all departed within 25 minutes of each other. Not bad for the 21st century! ... (more)

SRY 902 and 906 are seen at New Westminster in 2004.

Not sure of the name of this place, but it was near the east end of Moffat Tunnel. UP 9670 heads a westbound train in November 2001.

What`s it like inside the carriage? A well loaded train of devotees, en route to the Biswa Ijtema festival at Tongi, passes Karwan Bazar, in Dhaka.

Narrow gauge C2 0-8-0 No 31 arrives in Weihe with a passenger train from Luishan in March 2002. I remember a heated argument was going on between the people in the foreground.

On a very cold and windy day (note the exhaust), a pair of QJ 2-10-2 locos climb over brickworks viaduct on the famous Jingpeng line in 2003.

AMTK 73 leads the California Zephyr, near Thompson. UT. in 2001.

UP 4445 and 9025 head a train of school buses through Rock Springs. WY. in 2001.

East German built, BoBo electric loco, No 7342 stirs the dust as it climbs out of the massive open-cast pit at Pingzhang in 2002. Note another similar train, top left of photo.

MDmots are classed as DMUs, but the leading power car looks like a loco to me! Here is MD3006 at Berzence with the 1309 Pecs to Nagykanizsa in 2000.

A very tatty BNSF 501 leads a mixed livery BNSF quartet at Verdemont in October 2000.

ALCo 3815 was built in Schenectady in the late 1950s. It is seen here in 2001, at Quetta, awaiting departure with the Abbaseen Express, the 18.30 to Peshawar.

It takes 3 locos to move just 11 wagons up the very steeply graded Chengde steelworks line. JS 5723 leads, with 2 SYs shoving from behind. Both types of loco are 2-8-2. Seen on a cold day in Febru... (more)

DM3 1223,1241 and 1224 with an iron ore train for Narvik, approach Vassijaure which is around 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. These powerful locos have steam loco style rods connecting their... (more)