Variations on USA rail inspection vehicles.

 

60009 Union of South Africa is a LNER Class A4 steam locomotive built at Doncaster Works in 1937. It is one of six surviving A4s. Its mainline certification expired in April 2020.

 

Passing Shinkansens, Tokyo.

 

Napier, New Zealand. Class J No. 1211.

 

Oregon Trunk Rail Bridge

 

Thamshavn banen Norway, oldest Alternating current locomotive in operation

 

Latest train sets.

Our first look at the wonderful work completed by ALSTOM at Widnes on the Grand Central Rail MK4s. The first two sets lead by #Class90 90029/026.

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Amtrak in Ohio.

 

BR Class 108 DMU. Derby built. 'Lightweight'. 2 Leyland 150bhp engines.

 

Fairburn 2-6-4T 42060 takes water at the basic and cramped facilities of Wemyys Bay turntable, Scotland, 1961.

 

Until 1936, Waterloo had a massive Signal Box straddling the tracks, controlling all trains to Clapham & Vauxhall.

 

Summit at Cajon CA with BNSF 3754.

 

NYC S-1b "Niagara" No.6001 Rolling past the Hudson River on the "Water Level Route." 1946.

 

Siemens DB 182 Series. 004 painted silver with stylish Porsche logo.

 

After Electro-Motive's "Aerotrain" concept failed to reinvigorate passenger rail travel, partly due to the train's poor design, the Rock Island acquired both trainsets for use in commuter service. Originally, No.1 went to the Pennsylvania while No.2 tested on the New York Central. Seen here is No.2 arriving at Chicago's Englewood Union Station on April 21, 1965. Today, sections of both sets survive; No.2 resides at the National Railroad Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin while the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis has No.1.

 

Turntable at Leicester Midland 1960's.

 

E.333, Ventimiglia. A 1955/57 Type carriage train arrived at the border station, where electrification then ended (until 1969 the French route to Nice was not electrified)

 

Great Northern engines in St. Paul, Minnesota, 1964.

 

Up mineral at Barrow-on-Soar. View NW, towards Trent, Derby/Nottingham etc.: ex-Midland Main Line from St Pancras. BR 9F 2-10-0 No. 92134 (built 6/57, withdrawn 12/66 and preserved). [Currently active on the North York Moors Railway] The loco is one of numerous heavy freight locomotives - the 2-10-0s having a short life, allocated to Wellingborough and engaged on the heavy coal traffic up this main line. It is passing Barrow-on-Soar station (later rebuilt further south) on the Up Goods line.

 

Norfolk and Southern NS GP33ECO, No 4722, powering a EMD/NS RP-M4C Slug.

 

DB Cargo Siemens Vectron 193 369's Deutschland. Four prototype versions: diesel, multi-system, and both AC and DC electric power. Used all over Europe. The multi-system locomotive is particularly energy-efficient and allows cross-border traffic without time-consuming locomotive changes.

 

Cincinnatti Rail Yard.

 

Sidings in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.

 

The new Polish railways EN 100 series.

 

View looking south of the Southern Pacific’s Taylor yard facility from the elevated stock switches. When the cars are uncoupled they roll down off the "Hump" and switched onto one of the many yard tracks seen in the distance. The switches for all these tracks are controlled from the towers seen alongside the yard.

 

Baldwin locomotives working the hump at Southern Pacific’s Taylor Yard (Los Angeles), 1963-64 era.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer.

 The Royal Albert Bridge is a railway bridge which spans the River Tamar in England between Plymouth, Devon and Saltash, Cornwall. Its unique design consists of two 455-foot lenticular iron trusses 100 feet above the water, with conventional plate-girder approach spans. This gives it a total length of 2,187.5 feet.

Two Thames Link class 700 units in Brighton Station.

 

ŠKODA unveiled the first of five 160km/h double-deck push-pull trains for Czech Railways (ČD).

 

Deltic diesel leaving Doncaster.

 

B&O GP9 No.6583 passing through Blue Island Junction in March, 1986.

 

Blue Island Junction outside Chicago.

 

Czech Railways ČD Vectron fleet at their roundhouse.

 

Doubleheaded Penn Central GG1s on freight duty 1970, ish.

 

Interior of a London Underground Bombardier Movia S7 stock Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) metro train, featuring Open Gangways.

 

BR Midland Blue Pullman HST at work.

 

CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

An unusually long set can be seen today between Prague and Brno in the section from Kolín to Brno. It is a train consisting of 21 RegioJet cars, which has a Siemens Vectron locomotive at one end and a Bombardier TRAXX MS2 at the other, track testing.

London Paddington Station.

 

The PRR E44 was an electric, rectifier-equipped locomotive built by General Electric for the Pennsylvania Railroad between 1960 and 1963. All retired by mid 80's.

 

An interesting railcar in La Spezia, Italy.