Last day for Eurocity Croatia to be powered by a pair of older ladies, as new timetables arrived Slovenske Zeleznice took over the job with leased Siemens Vectron locomotives.

"Evening red and morning gray, help the traveller on his way." - says the sailor, and indeed the following day was dark and gray with minor wind. But it was a mayor heatwave (15 degrees ... (more)

Tank engine Elveția is pulling one of CFF's winter specials up Vaser valley just past the end Of Viseu. They organized holiday specials to cope with the high demand: 4 trains with 30min inter... (more)

Milan-La Spezia intercity just left Rapallo on it's way south along the Ligurian coast.

IC 519 arrives an hour late with Tartaruga 018 on point just as EC 147 rolls in coming from Marseilles-Nizza-Monaco-Ventimiglia-Savona. EC 147 will continue to Milan after reversing. From left to ... (more)

September's second weekend marked clearly the end of summer 2019 with a massive temperature-drop and lots of rain, over 5000 feet snow. View from the train was probably much like looking out from ... (more)

Eurocity 150 ‘Emona’ glides over a moody after-storm scenery that begins to settle for the night.

One of the roadswitchers (yes, being a cowl unit it is used for that purpose) eases on the breaks as it rolls out of Dealu after the two parts of the train was coupled. The weekly Dej-Sacel-Leordi... (more)

Two Tatras meeting at the narrowest place on the line: in the esses just before Hűvösvölgy. This light and mood got me to take out my gear again and take some shots.

Couldn't be happier with this shot: I spent two days here, and this is the only one of around 50 trains which came when the fog has cleared. Beautiful piece of equipment, a real modern day streaml... (more)

The days last Avtovlak rolls out of Podbrdo station with a 6 axle G22 on point. There was a lovely mood after sunset, I'm loving these small villages in the Alps.

Coal is loaded into the tender of SŽ 33 037 after it's fire was started. The roundhouse in Jesenice is long out of use, serves only as home for the summertime steam operations and occasionally fo... (more)

Midnight charge: a dry storm hit me during the Depot-shoot.

EN 445 'Slovakia' operates between the czech capital and Kosice in Slovakia. You can guess from the sunrise that it is close to it's destination; in fact, there's less than two hours to go. Luckie... (more)