Class 37, 37510 at Slochd Loop, between Inverness and Perth on 1Z99 Snow patrolling duty, 11 February 2009.

 

[JR West] Kumoya 145-1201 Test run on the premises of the Fukida factory

 

The 1st Corail reversible train. TER Burgundy. 2008. France.

 

Milan Centrale station in the years immediately after World War II.

 

Union Pacific Big Boy in Denver.

 

2 Class 37's, with a double headed snow plough.

 

The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler 3F 0-6-0T is a class of steam locomotive, often known as Jinty. They represent the ultimate development of the Midland Railway's six-coupled tank engines. They could reach speeds of up to 60 mph. Total of 412 were built built betweem 1924 to 1931.

 

The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive. Also known as the English Electric Type 3, the class was ordered as part of the British Rail modernisation plan.

 

A SNCF TGV Duplex trainset is crossing the Cize - Bolozon viaduct over the Ain river. The viaduct is part of the Haut-Bugey line, which was reopened in December 2010 for TGV services between Geneva and Paris.

 

Long retired!

Former MARC GP40WH-2 56 has been growing funk and getting picked apart by both nature and vandals for several years of storage since being retired.              MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter) Train. 

Triple-headed BR Class 37s pass Cardiff Canton depot with a iron-ore train in May 1979.

 

Milwaukee Road.

The Milwaukee Road's class EP-2 comprised five electric locomotives built by General Electric in 1919. They were often known as Bipolars, which referred to the bipolar electric motors they used.

Taking on water!

Water could shoot up if the scoop was left in the water troughs too long when running at speed. The locomotive is ‘A4’ No. 60022 Mallard and the location is Langley troughs, on the East Coast Main Line, in June 1962.

Hand-droulic pushers attempt to roll a caboose downgrade through the yard at Bluefield on a miserably cold day in early 1985. They eventually succeeded, and the cab dropped down to a coupling on the rear of an eastbound coal train ready to depart for Roanoke.

 

Spain.

 The Renfe Series 333 are high power six-axle diesel-electric locomotives built in the 1970s; at the time of their introduction they were the most powerful non-electric locomotives in Spain. After three decades of service the class were rebuilt incorporating Alstom's newer technology, and thus extending their life - these rebuilt machines were given the sub-class names 333.3 and 333.4.

Class 40 alongside a British Rail Class 390 Pendolino in Liverpool Lime Street station.

 

Baldwin, Chesapeake & Ohio 2-6-6-2 No.1309 built in 1949.

 

Japans latest,

 The E001 series, branded Train Suite Shiki-shima is a hybrid electric/diesel deluxe sleeping-car excursion train operated by the East Japan Railway Company since 1 May 2017. The Train Suite Shiki-shima is one of the world's most exclusive and expensive trains.

Nottingham Midland Station, on the old Derby to Lincoln line.

1. Main station.

2. Main station with a 'Peak' diesel.

3. Same platform with the Blue liveried Midland Pullman.

Both photos showing the Great Central line passing overhead.

4. Showing construction of the large 'bowstring' girder bridge that

carried the London Extension of the Great Central over the Midland

Railway's Station in Nottingham, as viewed from platform level in

1897.

5. On the Great Central girder bridge.

1913 Snow Plough refurb.

 After 18 years of refurbishment, the Switzerland Rhaetian Railway’s R12 rotary snow plow finally gets a trial run!

The R12 was originally built in 1913 by the Swiss Locomotive Machine Works.

Rugby viaduct and signal gantry.

This girder structure is the south end of Rugby viaduct, built to carry the Last Main Line over the London & North Western Railway. Because of the obstruction caused by the viaduct, the LNWR demanded the Great Central pay for the erection of the enormous signal gantry seen here on the right. This section of the London Extension (Contract No.3, Aylestone to Rugby) was built by Topham, Jones & Railton between 1894-1899.

             During construction of the Great Central Flyover.

Two class 68's waiting in York Station.

 

'Big Boy'.

 

Brand new and gleaming Union Pacific 4884-1 class "Wasatch" number 4000. Better known as a "Big Boy" thanks to a worker and a piece of chalk, the massive 4-8-8-4 simple articulated was built by the Schenectady plant of the American Locomotive Company, construction number 69571, in August of 1941. Number 4000 was photographed undergoing initial testing, and the dynamometer car can be seen behind the tender. After the final service runs in June of 1959, the locomotives were retired and temporarily stored. Eight "Big Boy" locomotives were eventually preserved, and in 2019, number 4014 was restored to service by the Union Pacific for the 150th anniversary of the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad.

CAB FORWARD LOCOS.

 Southern Pacific Railroad's AC-4 class of steam locomotives was the first class of 4-8-8-2 cab forward locomotives. They were intended to improve on the railroad's MC class 2-8-8-2 locomotives with a larger firebox. The AC-4s were the first SP Mallets built for simple expansion. Baldwin Locomotive Works built them in August through October 1928 with a maximum cutoff of 70%, so tractive effort was rated at 112,760 lbf (501.6 kN); a few years later limited cutoff was dropped and calculated tractiv.

Cab Forward 4294.

SP 4294, the last new steam locomotive purchased by the Southern Pacific and the last remaining cab forward. The cab forwards were the signature locomotive of the Southern Pacific; no other railroad used them.  

GT3.

GT3, meaning Gas Turbine number 3, was a prototype mainline gas turbine locomotive built in 1961 by English Electric at their Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows to investigate the use of its gas turbines in rail traction applications. It was designed by English Electric engineer J. O. P. Hughes in a project that started in the early 1950s. Externally it resembled a steam tender locomotive, but the tender carried kerosene fuel. The designer said the traditional chassis and mechanical transmission avoided complications with (at the time of its conception) relatively untried technologies for bogies and electrical transmission.

Only one was made for British Rail and it went through a series of tests on BR's Great Central Main Line. It was ultimately scrapped a few years later despite performing favorably. Two ended diesel electric locomotives were simply more practical.

Train turntable at the Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina,

 

The Westbound "Reno Fun Train" at Emigrant Gap. SP SD45 No.8880 is in the lead with two FP7's and two F7B's with boilers.

 

Bristol St Philips Marsh depot.

 

Clignancourt subway, Paris.

 

During a series of test runs, a crew films the displacement of the overhead line caused by the ALe 601.018, running at 225 kmh (140 mph). Italy 1963.

 

Amtrak ALC-42.

 Amtrak has a new locomotive that will be the face of the rail corporation. The ALC-42 Siemens Chargers can reach a top speed of 125 miles per hour while burning less diesel. An $850 million contract was awarded for 75 locomotives to be delivered through 2024.

SF No. 9537 heads a quad set in California, 1987.

 

SCNF TGV.

Ouigo (French pronunciation: ​[wiˈɡo]) is a French low-cost high-speed train service headquartered in Marne-la-Vallée offering long-distance services on core routes of the French rail network, albeit mostly between secondary stations. It is an independent subsidiary of the French national rail company SNCF and also utilizes some of their TGV trainsets.