The so-called crocodile, is a signaling device. It is a component of train protection systems used in France and Belgium. It works similarly to the Automatic Warning System (AWS) used in the United Kingdom. The crocodile can provide two different pieces of information to the driver, according to the aspect of the corresponding signal:

 

CSX 1150 approaching Plymouth, MI.

 

Fresh from the factory and being shipped west is Southern Pacific Lines AC-7 class "Cab Forward" number 4162. The gleaming oil-burning simple articulated 4-8-8-2 was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, construction number 61963, in February of 1937.

 

Prototype HST 252001 leaves Newton Abbot, winter 1974.

 

Minneapolis, Minnesota, maintenance yard.

 

Lostock Hall Engine shed, Preston. 1968.

 

Inside the Vulcan Factory, Newton-le-Willows. 1964.

 

Northtown Diesel Shop Service Track in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Locomotives are required to be serviced and inspected, every 24 hours. Typically, a locomotive has a fuel capacity of 4,000 gallons of No. 2 Diesel and usually consumes 3.5 gallons of fuel per mile. Refueling is commonly done in a yard at a service rack. Refueling can take 5 min or half an hour depending on how much is needed and how good the pump is. In addition, the locomotives take on sand and water at a service rack.

 

Willesden shed, North London.

 

CP 7026 Rebuilt EMD SD70AC heading CP 3901 working an oil train.

 

Class 127 and Class 101 DMU's on the Great Central.

 

Cargo ship Barenfels being loaded in March 1964, at Bremen with the shipment to Houston (USA) of a series of 15 Diesel-Hydraulic locomotives type ML4000 built by Krauss Maffei in Munich, for Southern Pacific.

 

APT Class 370 set No.370 003 departing London Euston in the 1980's, with an LNER Class 86 waiting on the next platform.

 

BNSF Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a departing CPKC grain train.

 

Two Class 50's on the Arnside viaduct, Cumbrian Coast line

 

A pair of new rebuilds last week, nos. 4767 and 4771 for CSX.

 

DB Cargo Loco's in Toton Yard, Class 60 and Class 67.

 

A BNSF manifest makes its way downhill around the famous Tehachapi Loop in California.

 

Rotary Snowplow BN 972561 was based in Wenatchee, Washington. Seen here is BN 972561 Rotary Snowplow and it's mate BN 972577 Rotary Snow Plow Power Plant.

 

Rail Freight DB Cargo (UK) Limited.

 

37205 pulls away from Abercwmboi Phurnacite plant with a Speedlink coal working for Severn Tunnel junction on 19th August 1986. The Phurnacite plant closed in 1991.

 

Metra Milwaukee Road-painted MP36PH-3S No. 405.

 

Newport, Wales, a pair of GWR 800s on Platform 1, a pair of 387s going down the middle and a TFW class 175 on platform 2.

 

CSX 7773 was at the end of a string of seven locomotives being shunted around the servicing facility at BNSF Galesburg in June '07.

 

MULTI sleeper tamping on Indian railways. Dynamic Track Stabiliser.

 

'Brand New' LUMO Class 803 in Action Press Launch & First Passenger Service | October 2021803-003 -1S97 - London Kings Cross. 2021.

 

The North Eastern Railway was a pioneer of electric traction, introducing electric railways to Tyneside in 1904. In 1915, the line from Shildon to Newport (Teesside) was electrified, the first phase opening

 

BNSF Locomotive Shops in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2019. One of the shop crew inspects BNSF 1734. This locomotive is a former Santa Fe long nosed SD40-2, built as ATSF 5166 in 1980.

 

Crossovers at St. Paul.

 

JS 500 Series.

 

55009 charges south with 1z20 capital deltic. BR Class 55, Deltic 55009 Alycidon, on full power, with a Class 47 at the rear as backup.

 

LNER A4 No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley and 60009 Union of South Africa.

 

In April of 2007, TGV set a world record in speed when a train reached an operating speed of 574.8 km per hour (357mph).

 

Deep Navigation colliery in the background, an empty MGR (merry go round) from Aberthaw power station approaches Taff Merthyr & Trelewis drift mine headed by 37240 & 37699 in 1986.

 

The KiHa 40 series is a diesel multiple unit (DMU) train type introduced by Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1977.

 

Amtrak Acela at speed.

 

German (DB) class 442 in Austria.

 

CR400 'Fuxing': 350 kph/217 mph (China).

 

Spraying ICE high-train with glycol fluid, Deutsche Bahn (DB) Germany. In order to prevent the emergence of ice and snow blocks on the trains, they are sprayed with special de-icing fluids that contain glycol.

 

BNSF 6903 + 2, Washington.

 

The first nine-carriage new Piccadilly line (London Underground) train, 94 units to be built.

 

LMS Jubilee Class 45596 Bahamas. The train is a preserved steam locomotive built in 1934 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow, designed by Sir William Stanier.