UK Trans Penine Express 68023 'Achilies'.

 

Coaster 683 prepares to depart downtown San Diego's Santa Fe Depot. No. 3002 taking charge. The San Diego's Coaster commuter rail is the last Californian passenger railroad that continues to operate the F59 series of locomotives, let alone Amtrak California services in the northern half of the state. This engine and its sister 3001 were built and placed into service in 2001 and after 21 years of service they continue to roll on, however they are scheduled to be replaced next year by 4 Siemens SC-44 Charger engines, bringing the EMD era in California to an end.

 

Class EF65-1000 electric locomotive EF65-1109 coupled up to the Izumo sleeping car service at Kyoto Station.

 

Kansas City Southern de Mexico No. 4555 Heads an empty coal, Nebraska.

 

Sporting a fairly clean cab and a fairly filthy rest of her is Southern Pacific Lines AC-4 class "Cab Forward" number 4100. The ponderous 4-8-8-2 simple articulated was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works

 

British Railways Standard 6P5F 4-6-2 No. 72009 "Clan Stewart" by Leeds Holbeck shed.

 

Amtrak Wilmington maintenance facility.

 

Around this time back in 1863, Britain's busiest interchange was born - Clapham Junction railway station!

 

The United States Army Transportation Corps S160 Class is a class of 2-8-0 Consolidation steam locomotive, designed for heavy freight work in Europe during World War II. A total of 2,120 were built and they worked on railroads across much of the world, including Africa, Asia, all of Europe and South America.

 

These are examples of the oldest, the newest, and the future tube stock on the London Underground. The first picture is the 1972 stock that now runs on the Bakerloo Line. The second picture is the S7 stock which is currently the newest stock (along with the S8) that was first introduced to service in 2010 and runs on the Circle, District, Hammersmith and City Lines. And the third picture is a mock up of how the new Piccadilly Line trains will look when they are (hopefully) introduced in 2025.

 

The view from the Shard overlooking London Bridge Station.

 

LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado is a 4-6-2 steam locomotive built by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust. Completed in 2008 at the cost of around £3 million, it is the first newly built main line steam locomotive in the UK since Evening Star in 1960.

 Seen here on the Great Central Preserved line.

The JŽ class 441 is an electric locomotive built for Yugoslav Railways.

 

The Didcot Railway Centre in June 1994, has an impressive line up; Br Standard 4 2-6-4T No. 80079, Bulleid Pacific No. 35005 "Canadian Pacific", GWR 7800 Class 7808 "Cookham Manor" and Br Standard 7 No. 70000 "Britannia" posing as 70014 "Iron Duke".

 

E7 Series bullet train on, 2015 in Tokyo.

 

Transpenine exprrss. The Class 68 is a type of mainline mixed traffic diesel-electric locomotive manufactured by Stadler Rail (and previously by Vossloh España) for Direct Rail Services (DRS) in the United Kingdom.

 

Virginian Railway boxcab No.110 Class EL1A)

 

The first new electric Caltrain train was delivered this weekend to their San José maintenance facility!

Caltrain is a California commuter rail line serving the San Francisco Peninsula and Santa Clara Valley (Silicon Valley). The southern terminus is in San Jose at Tamien station with weekday rush hour service running as far as Gilroy. The northern terminus of the line is in San Francisco at 4th and King Streets. Caltrain has 28 regular stops.

Amtrac 822.

 

The 300 series was a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train type, with a top operational speed of 270 km/h (170 mph), was retired exactly 10 years ago.

 

LMS Sentinel No.7192 flanked by 2 other LMS Shunters in 1937.

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Sentinel No. 7192 was a geared steam locomotive. It was built in 1934 by the Sentinel Waggon Works of Shrewsbury. It had an Abner Doble boiler combined with a 4-cylinder compound arrangement, but an order for an additional locomotive and three railcars to a similar was later cancelled. It was withdrawn in 1963 and scrapped.

A Railjet Express passed through Mols and on to Vienna.

 

Deutsche Reichsbahn Class 03(lightweight 2-cylinder pacific) No. 154, with add-on experimental streamlined casing. In the summer of 1934, 03 154 underwent extensive test runs by the locomotive testing department in Berlin-Grunewald. In order to create space for the measuring devices, it temporarily lost its wind deflectors. The picture was taken in Hamburg-Altona train station, which was then called Altona Hauptbahnhof.

 

Railfreight with BNSF.

 

Nottingham Eastcroft depot EMR East Midlands Railways.

 

Indian Railways.

 

Preserved British Railways 18000 gas turbine locomotive at Didcot Railway Centre, England

 

Norfolk and Southern Charlotte, NC.

 

05 001. DRG Class 05 streamlined 4-6-4T No.05 001 (Borsig No.14552 of 1935) in its beautiful deep red livery at the DB Museum, Nurnberg,

 

View northward, towards Derby (Midland) Station; ex-Midland Bristol - Birmingham - Derby main line,joining the Main line from London and Leicester. On the Goods lines from the Burton-on-Trent/Birmingham direction, ex-War Department 2-8-0 No. 90511 on an Up (northbound) train meets ex-Midland 3F 0-6-0 No. 43621 on a Down empties running in the opposite direction. Over to the right are the extensive Derby Locomotive Works and in the left distance the Station.

 

Built as Denver and Rio Grande class 458 in 1913 and rebuilt in 1924 to class L-96, they would survive until until the early 1950's.

 

Baldwin-built New Zealand Railway locomotive Wᴰ 323 awaiting tanks at erecting shop in Petone, circa 1901-1902. "Wd" 323 was built by Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia (maker's no. 18550/01), went into service in May 1901, and was written of in June 1933, after being shunted in the coal tender, (last picture).

 

Derby Locomotive Shed with a 70 ft. turntable was provided for locomotives too large to be accommodated inside the roundhouses.

These are:- Stanier LMS 4-6-0s grouped round the external turntable at Derby Locomotive Depot on the 2 April 1950.

Left to right:- 'Jubilee' 5XP No. 45664 'Nelson' (built 1/35, withdrawn 5/65), then 5MT 4-6-0s 44853 (1944 6/67), 44819 (1944 - 11/67) and 44856 (1944 - 2/67). In 1950 all these would normally be engaged in express passenger work. At that time Derby Depot (coded 17A) had an allocation of 139 locomotives all of which were steam.

Derby midland roundhouse.

Midland Railway/Division, which until the late 1930s utilised 'small engines' generally on both its freight and passenger trains: indeed, the lack of strength of certain bridges on the main Derby - Bristol trunk line necessitated the continuation of this policy until then. Grouped round this roundhouse turntable are four Midland engines:- 3F 0-6-0 No. 3755, 2F 0-6-0Ts Nos. 1856 and 1777, and 3F 0-6-0 No. 3368. Saltley closed to steam on 6/3/67, but continued to service Diesel locomotives subsequently for at least another 30 years,

Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri.

 

Deltic working the East Coast line at Grantham 1978.

 

Hankai Tramway Co. Ltd. Osaka tramway works engine.

 

BR Freightliner Class 66-793 curves into Clapham Junction.

 

USATC S-160 number 5820 in preservation in Howarth shed on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway in 1985. This locomotive was built by Lima in Ohio in 1945 as works number 8758.

 

United States Army Transport Corps S-160 2-8-0s Part 1, needed a heavy goods steam locomotive for use in Europe and Africa. The result was the USATC S-160 2-8-0. Large numbers of these were shipped to Britain in preparation for the D-Day landings, and more were later shipped direct to continental Europe

 

Train left: TWINDEXX is a double-deck train that is specially designed by Bombardier Transportation for Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). The rolling stock was designed in response to SBB's proposals to launch an intercity high-speed express train. Train right: The RABe 501, nicknamed Giruno, is a high-speed electric multiple unit train built by Stadler Rail of Switzerland for the Swiss Federal Railways. According to Stadler Rail, it is the world's first single-decker low-floor high-speed train.

 

Union Pacific at Ventura county, California.

 

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