N&W Class-J No. 611, under PRR catenary and getting underway to Strasburg via the old No. 1 eastbound track, which is now the Strasburg Rail Road's interchange track. NS SD70ACe No. 1206, which h... (more)

In 2007, there were several celebrations for 125 years of the Gotthard railway, openend in 1882. A spectacular sight was the wrapping of some objects along the line in red fabric during some days.... (more)

The stack talk was deafening, as Reading T-1 No. 2102 accelerated a string of hoppers down the Schuylkill Valley. The headlight was off, prototypically, per the Reading experts on hand that day, ... (more)

The N&W A and J are racing past the photo line, transporting hundreds of NRHS conventioneers back to the glory days of steam. One wonders if this scene will ever be repeated...

Reading T-1 No. 2102, working upgrade along the Little Schuylkill Branch in 1991. Thirty of these locomotives (2100-2129) were produced by the Reading Shops between 1945 and 1947, heavily rebuilt... (more)

In its last year of operation, Pennsy D16sb No. 1223 runs around its mixed freight, in a view from J-Tower. Photo taken by my wife; conductor was the late H. Fox, guarding the now-gone pedestrian... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur as very first locomotive, is running down from Rigi Kulm to Arth-Goldau, with cars B # 5 of 1871 and C #... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive with upright boiler H 1/2 # 7, built in 1873 by the SLM Winterthur as very first locomotive, is shoving car B # 5 of 1871 from Vitznau up to Rigi Kulm, between Grubisbalm ... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive H 1/2 # 7 with upright boiler, built in 1873 by the SLM, is shoving the small passenger car B # 5 of 1871 up to Rigi Kulm, with Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee) and Pila... (more)

On a beautiful spring morning, a cogwheel steamtrain of the Brienz-Rothorn Bahn (BRB) is leaving the village of Brienz up to Oberstaffel. Coal fired locomotive H 2/3 # 7 of 1936 is pushing car B #... (more)

Steamtrain with locomotive H 2/3 # 7, passenger car B # 16 and freight car M # 3 is leaving Planalp station and running down to Brienz. This was a P.M. photo charter train from Brienz to Oberstaff... (more)

This is the situation on Oberstaffel crossing station of the Brienz-Rothorn Bahn (BRB) on 1818 meter a.s.l. in the end of may 2021. The work train with cogwheel diesellocomotve Hm 2/2 # 10 of 1975... (more)

Geldried crossing station on the Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn, maybe in the 1950'? The train up to the Brienzer Rothorn with locomotive H 2/3 # 7, passenger car B # 16 and freight car M # 3 stopped to taki... (more)

A steamtrain with coalfired H 2/3 # 7 of the Brienz-Rothorn Bahn is tackling the grade of 25.0 % of the Chuemad on the journey up to the Brienzer Rothorn. You can see the line making zig-zag on th... (more)

Recreating the 1950'. The steam charter for a small group from Brienz (566 meter a.s.l.) up to the Brienzer Rothorn (2244 meter a.s.l.) made a short stop below Chuemad, on the section between Plan... (more)