THE FAMOUS (LONG GONE) DIAMOND CROSSING - SAID TO BE THE LARGEST RAILWAY CROSSING IN THE WORLD (TAKEN IN THE 1960's), showing a British Rail Class 44 'Peak' engine.

 

Locos in Toton depot. Toton Traction Maintenance Depot or Toton Sidings is one of the largest rail depots in the United Kingdom.

 

Four Santa Fe engines at work.

 

A train loaded with Granite chippings departs from the Bardon Hill quarry exchange sidings on the former Leicester and Swannington Railway. Hauled by Freightliner class-66 Co-Co 66563, the train is heading south to the London area. Bardon Hill signal box is a Midland Railway type 2b box dating from 1899, although the original mechanical lever frame has been replaced by electrical switches.

A couple of miles away from me.

 

Class 111 is the successor of the Class 110 express Einheitslokomotive. Since demand for fast electric locomotives was high even after production of the 110 ended, the Deutsche Bundesbahn decided to commission a new batch in the 1970s. The bogies were replaced with a different type, significantly improving the locomotive's behaviour at higher speeds. The driver's cab also was significantly improved.

 

Entrance to St Pancras station, London in the 1930's. By the signal box (in front) is a hydraulic lift that lowered beer laden wagons, from Burton-on-Trent, into the undercroft to get distributed around London.

 https://stpancras.com/history/built-on-beer

Seimens Charger.

The Siemens Charger is a family of diesel-electric passenger locomotives designed and manufactured by Siemens Mobility for the North American market. There are three models of Chargers: the SC-44 for state-supported and VIA inter-city services, the SCB-40 for Brightline inter-city service, and the ALC-42 for Amtrak long distance service.

British Rail class 139.

British Rail Class 139 is the TOPS classification for PPM60 model lightweight railcars built by Parry People Movers, for use on the British rail network. The class were originally built in 2008.

Italian E 431 series.

The E 431 three-phase alternating electric current locomotives were built in 37 units between 1922 and 1925. They served mainly at the head of the Turin-Rome express trains. In relation to the importance of the services performed, they could circulate in double traction.  The design of the E 431 was developed to make locomotives available for fast and heavy trains, capable of reaching 100 km / h.

Amtrak's Superliner 'California zephyr'.

 

Great Northern units.

 Three types of Great Northern motive power are shown at Appleyard, near Wenatchee, Wash. Left to right are GE class W-1 electric No. 5019, built in 1947; EMD FT diesel No. 416, built in 1944; and Baldwin class R-1 2-8-8-2 No. 2036.

Derby built 79XXX DMU, seen at Ipswich.

 

Steam locomotive Ka 942 at the 100 year anniversary of the North Island Main Trunk Railway, in Feilding, New Zealand, lined up in a locomotive cavalcade.

 

British 9F 92024 with Crosti boiler, showing secondary smokebox door and side-mounted chimney. BR Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 built in 1955 with the Franco-Crosti boiler.

 

Amtrak's Siemens SC-44 Charger.

 

BNSF freight Cajun Summit.

 

The AD60 class were Beyer-Garratt patent articulated four-cylinder, simple, non-condensing, coal-fired superheated, 4-8-4+4-8-4 heavy goods steam locomotives built by Beyer, Peacock and Company for the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia.

 

FS Class E.432 was a class of three-phase electric locomotives of the Italian State Railways. Forty of these 1′D1′ locomotives were built in 1928 by Società Ernesto Breda and two have been preserved.

 

Yard full of the N700 series Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train with tilting capability.

 

Great Northern class 365 and LNER A4 60009 Union of South Africa.

 

The Union Pacific Big Boy is a type of simple articulated 4-8-8-4 steam locomotive manufactured by the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) between 1941 and 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in revenue service until 1959.

 

Toton Traction Maintenance Depot or Toton Sidings is one of the largest rail depots in the United Kingdom.

 

Milwaukee Road, 1967.

 

NS VIRM trains.

 VIRM trains, full name Verlengd InterRegio Materieel, are a series of electric multiple unit double-deck trains operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen or NS, the principal railway operator in the Netherlands. NS has 178 of these double-deckers – 98 four-carriage sets, and 80 six-carriage sets. 

Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Depot. NC.

 

British Rail 9F.

9F 92024 with Crosti boiler, showing secondary smokebox door and side-mounted chimney.  BR Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 built in 1955 with the Franco-Crosti boiler.

Scotland.

Jamestown Viaduct heading towards Dunfirmline, Scotland, with the Forth Bridge and Edinburgh in the background.

GG 1

 The Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 was a class of streamlined electric locomotives built for the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), in the northeastern United States. Between 1934 and 1943 General Electric and the PRR's Altoona Works built 139 GG1s.The GG1 entered service with the PRR in 1935 and later ran on successor railroads Penn Central, Conrail and Amtrak. The last GG1 was retired by New Jersey Transit in 1983. Most have been scrapped, but sixteen are in museums.