Minutes before the Sun set behind the mountains, a Sunday-only intercity from Lienz to Vienna descends the Neumarkter Sattel incline into the Mur river's valley on Austria's Rudolfsbahn.

Two coupled DMUs on an Esztergom to Budapest service make a stop at a platform covered with re-frozen snow on a very cold day (about -9 °C or 16 °F when the photo was taken). This railway line w... (more)

Busy morning in Leoben: left to right, parked tunnel rescue wagons, parked Hungarian track measuring DMU FMK-008, departing EMU ÖBB 4744 064 on a Neumarkt in Steiermark to Graz regional express s... (more)

A twin railbus reached the derelict last stop before end of the steep branchline from Hronská Dúbrava to Banská Štiavnica, on a service that started in the central Slovakian city of Zvolen. Pa... (more)

Uncharacteristically battered triple-voltage loco ÖBB 1216 226 with a Railjet push-pull express train on a Vienna to Lienz service makes a stop in Unzmarkt station next to ÖBB 4024 115, an EMU p... (more)

A single locomotive of leasing company ELL is enough to haul a southbound train of (presumably empty) tank wagons up the Neumarkter Sattel incline, where Austria's Rudolfsbahn line climbs out of t... (more)

Express train "Svatava" from Prague to Cheb heads north along the Vltava river, under cliffs darkened by a century of coal mining in the region.

A local train from Mürzzuschlag to Payerbach-Reichenau crosses the Kalte Rinne Viadukt and will soon disappear in the Polleros Tunnel on its descent of the northern ramp of the Semmeringbahn line... (more)

A Railjet push-pull express train on a Graz to Vienna Airport service crosses the Krausel-Klaue Viaduct and the ultra-short Kleiner Krausel Tunnel on its descent of the Semmeringbahn line in Austr... (more)

A coal train of mining company SD is bathed in the very last rays of the late summer Sun shining down into the depths of the valley of the Elbe (Labe) river.

A southbound container train hauled by an ÖBB class 1116 and a class 1144 loco almost reached the summit of the Neumarkter Sattel incline out of the valley of the Mur river on Austria's Rudolfsba... (more)

An all-Swedish night train from the Swedish capital Stockholm to the Norwegian port city of Narvik passed the border and the Baltic Sea - Atlantic water divide five minutes earlier and began its l... (more)

Running deep in the valley of the Mur river along Austria's Rudolfsbahn line on its way from Mürzzuschlag to Friesach, a recently refurbished EMU will soon reach Unzmarkt, with the ruined Frauenb... (more)

On a late summer evening, a push-pull train as local service from Ústí nad Labem to Lysá nad Labem passed the locks of the Elbe (Labe) rive under Střekov Castle. The locomotive carries an ... (more)

A double-deck S-Bahn (suburban rapid transit) train from Tharandt went around parked Vogtlandbahn Desiro DMUs and will soon arrive on platform 12 in Dresden's main station, while ICE-T tilting sem... (more)