99 7238 with train 8945 will reach the end station on Brocken summit in the next moment..

Most passengers of the failed night train to Nairobi had left the train already and went on by local busses. A few, who couldn´t afford the higher bus fare, waited at the station for another dies... (more)

A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the Beitai steel mill. Here SY1561, built at the Tangshan locomotive factory in 1987 (!... (more)

RVR diesel locomotives 8723 + 8740 make photographers happy by jointly shunting at Gilgil Junction. Green vegetation covers the branch line to Nyahururu, still not officially closed but unused for... (more)

A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the Beitai steel mill where SY0946, built at the Tangshan locomotive factory in 1975, w... (more)

Kenya Railways / RVR diesel locomotives 9310 + 9322 ease their way downhill, having just passed Equator station, hauling a freight from Uganda to Nairobi and on to the port of Mombasa. © www.tana... (more)

National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) Garratt 15A395 shunts its train on a clear morning at Thomson Junction yard. 15A395 is normally used for shunting at Bulawayo, Zimbabwe´s only remaining steam ... (more)

A sunny day at the Shibanxi narrow gauge line in Southern China! Once a hidden gem, the railroad becomes more and more popular with tourists now: both railfans and "normal" tourists from nearby Ch... (more)

One of the ubiquitous Chinese C2-type narrow gauge steam locomotives is #7 of the Jiayang Coal Mining Administration, stopping here on at Caiziba halt with one of the scheduled daily passenger tra... (more)

After RVR diesel locomotive 8740 had failed at Gilgil during the night with the Nairobi bound passenger train, 8723 arrives next morning at the station for help, giving the rare opportunity to tak... (more)

Yes, they are still going ... but are surely on their last leg. GE boxcabs 603 + 604 (ex FCCT, built 1927 in Schenectady (NY) haul an uphill train on the electrified section Topocilla - Barilles. ... (more)

A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the slag pit of the Beitai steel mill in China´s Liaoning province. Immediately after ... (more)

Steam Locomotive LO805, a 4-8-2, built by Robert Stephenson 7278/1947 and being a former SAR class 19D, pushes the rake of loaded ore hoppers to the unloading facility that is linked with the smel... (more)

99 7237 has just passed the crossing Goetheweg on its way to Brocken summit.

RVR´s ageing diesel 8723 waits at Gilgil station to couple onto its waiting train. The class 87 was built by English Electric from 1960 to 1966 with only 4 locomotives of that class being in dail... (more)