An LNER F4 resting alongside some 1923 London Underground Stock at Epping.

 

500 TYPE EVA, the spaceship-themed Shinkansen. Japan.

 

Union Pacific 4014...the "Big Boy" quietly rests after traveling across the state of Minnesota, reaching its northernmost destination of Duluth. While there was no formal photoshoot of the Big Boy at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum, the fine personnel of UP & LSRM rigged up lights and made for a night scene unlike any other. UP 4014 Union Pacific Steam 4-8-8-4 at Duluth, Minnesota.

 

The General Motors Aerotrain was an experimental direction taken by GM in the mid-1950's

 

The Twilight Express was a limited express sleeping car train service operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Japan from 1989 until March 2015.

 

One of the most famous old-fashioned e-loks should probably be the crocodiles of the E94 series and their slightly less known sisters of the E93. For the locomotive parade in 2012, some old-building locs gathered around the 100. Celebrating the birthday of the E69 03 The E94 279 and the E93 07. formed an extremely nice team. It is known that it is rare to see two crocodiles on a prank.

 

373 Eurostar 373219 is seen at a stand on the Temple Mills single line at Stratford International to St Pancras International. 05/04/22.

 

London overground 710273 comes down Camden Bank arriving into London Euston.

 

Class 90 No. 90021 in its new Malcolm Logistics Livery arrives at Wembley Yard after arriving from Crewe ETMD.

 

Two British Rail Class 37 meet at a station in Wales.

 

ET 420 at Cologne main station. The Class 420 (German: Baureihe 420) is a commuter electric multiple unit train type in service on German S-Bahn networks since 1972. Their use in Munich during the 1972 Summer Olympics earned them the colloquial name Olympiatriebwagen

 

The first UK-built Intercity Express rolls off the production line - at the Hitachi Rail Europe factory, in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, created by Hitachi, the makers of the bullet train - and will be in action on British railways from next summer.

 

The Mallet-Consolidation or MC-class engines were built with 57" drive wheels, with the Mallet Compound design using the high pressure steam from the boiler first in the fixed cylinder set under the middle of the boiler, then reusing the steam in the low pressure cylinders, which were much larger, on the radial engine, beyond the smokebox. These new engines could haul more tonnage than a standard Consolidation, more efficiently and with only one crew.

 

East Midlands Railway super sprinters 158806 and 158810 with a Liverpool to Norwich service, seen here passing through Manchester between Oxford Road and Piccadilly stations.

 

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.

 

EMR Class 222, at East Midlands Parkway. Formed of four, five or seven coaches and sometimes coupled together to give longer trains, our Meridian (Class 222s) trains operate the majority of our long-distance services on the Midland Mainline.

 

Class 40 ‘Andania’ with Intercity coaches leaving Great Yarmouth.

 

Getting battered on the sea wall, west coast main line, at Dawlish, Devon, UK.

 

Eastbound Chicago & Northwestern freight rolls through Union Grove, Illinois. January 20, 1994.

 

West Coast mainline, Scotland, by Loch Caaron. The Midland Pullman HST, 43055 in front, with 43046 at the rear.

 

The Twilight Express was a limited express sleeping car train service operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Japan from 1989 until March 2015.

 

DB Class V 200 (also known as Class 220) was the first series production diesel-hydraulic express locomotive of the German Deutsche Bundesbahn and – as Am 4/4 – of the SBB-CFF-FFS in Switzerland.

 

A "Berkshire" type steam locomotive refers to a steam locomotive built with a 2-8-4 wheel configuration. Lima Locomotive Works No.1, the original Super Power 2-8-4 prototype, has it's individual axle weights measured at the Lima factory circa 1925.

 

Refurbished Class 37, now Class 97, No. 97302.

 

Japan Railways.

1.  Special Express Shirakawa No. 34 Shin Aomori-yuki No.789. 789-type 8-car formation.

 2.  AC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) on limited express services in Hokkaido, Japan, since 2002.

Louis Southwestern 4-8-4. No.9 at Texarkana in 1951.

 

J.N.R. Electric Locomotive Type ED 1994. Sagami Railway ED12+ ED11 Double Engine Set.

 

DR Class 130 family. Made in the Ukraine from the 1970s onwards, and were imported into the GDR. After the reunification of Germany the Deutsche Bahn (DBAG) inherited them and continue to make use of them mainly as heavy freight locomotives.

 

Avanti West Coast No. 390121, in Climate Change Livery, Pendolino.

 

Group of railroad workers posing for a photo at the Pennsylvania Railroad Round House in Pitcairn, Allegheny County.

 

Origami Bird 800 Hitachi Rail Europe, Stoke Gifford Depot, Bristol.

 https://news.sky.com/story/firms-in-joint-bid-to-build-hs2-trains-in-uk-11425453

Clever!

Mixed gauge test track for 1000, 1435 and 1524 mm gauge in Škoda Plzeň. Combined gauge track at the Škoda factory in Pilsen. In the foreground, from left to right: between the first and third rail - 1524 mm , between the second and third - 1000 mm , between the second and fourth - 1435 mm .

 

Swiss Federal Railways. 460. The Re 460 (popularly known as the Lok 2000) series are modern four-axle electric locomotives of the Swiss Federal Railways.

 

British Rail Class 707 014 (707/0, Unit Number 707014) Siemens Desiro City Electric Multiple Unit (EMU) train at London Waterloo, UK. It is with South Western Railway (SWR), and is used on suburban services. To be transferred over to Southeastern.

 

The tilting Shinkansen Series N700 in Japan has a top speed of 300 km/h,

 

SD40 5008 complete with snow shields and exhaust lifters. Freshly rebuilt out of San Bernardino September 1981.

 

'Locomotive Depot', on Hayling Island sees one of the ancient ex-London, Brighton & South Coast Railway A1X class 0-6-0Ts

 

Providence and Worcester 2007 leaves Shell depot (ex Motiva) tank farm at the Port of Providence.

 

Class 105 Cravens unit at Aldersgate & Barbican station June 1960.

 

An express hauled by the 01 0510 leaves the station of Gera, GDR. (Deutsche Reichsbahn).

 

Grand Elk Hughart Yard, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

Rail Yards Frankfurt Central Station.