Edinburgh Waverley Station, 1960, a Caledonian Railway Class 439 at work.

 

Stadler KISS double-decker EMUs of Caltrain at San Jose.

 

Ivatt/Fell 10100, mechanical drive, with six diesel engines. in Manchester Central, and in Derby third image.

 

Redistribution of 27 BNSF units heading to Ohio.

 

GB freight class 66.

 

Spondon No.1 Battery Electric Loco, E905, built in 1935. Spme were powered solely by battery, some by overhead wires. this version was powered by both.

 

Newcastle Railway Station, 238 miles north of London.

 

New York. The No. 7 IRT Line in the Queens.

 

West Midlands Railway Class 730.

 

The diamond crossover to the north of the platforms at Hudson Yards station in 2015

 

UK set to launch £1,000,000,000 Tube line which will span 105 miles. A brand new £1billion Tube-style transport system is finally set to launch in Wales – and it promises to transform travel across the South of the country.

 

GATX lease units: GP38-2 2328 on the Housatonic Railroad.

 

Still in its white coat, Hitachi Avanti, Class 805, West Coast train.

 

Milan Central train station.

 

DB Cargo Class 67 021, in Belmond British Pullman Class livery.

 

Fore River Railroad, based in Quincy, No. 101, a General Electric B23-7.

 

Privately preserved former British Railways Bullied 7P 5FA 4-6-2 'West Country' class locomotive number 34092 “City of Wells” constructed at Brighton Works in 1949.

 

Unusual signal gantry, with signal box at Hexham, originally NER.

 

Caledonian Railway Class 439 N°55189.

 

Evanston IL, USA: CTA Howard Station and Howard Yard.

 

Two-unit Santa Fe diesel locomotive No. 1, the “One-Spot Twins,”

 

Class 222 Exiting Clay Cross tunnel, Derbyshire.

 

Willesden shed in London. 1962.

 

Freightliner Class 70.

 

Laira Depot, Plymouth.

 

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad originally relied on horses to pull its trains, but it became the first American railroad to switch to locomotives in 1830.

 

Gare Montparnasse, officially Paris Montparnasse, is one of the seven large Paris railway termini, 1840.

 

Midland Main Line Class 222, arriving at Derby.

 

British Railways Class D16/2 was a class of prototype diesel locomotives built by British Railways, shown outside Derby works.

 

Articulated Santa Fe motor car M-190 paved the way for passenger diesel locomotive No. 1.

 

Choose a Caboose, Chesapeake & Ohio’s Richmond, Va., Fulton Yard,

 

Bombardier tram, used on the Blackpool, Lancashire, tram system.

 

The British Rail Class 730 Aventra is a type of electric multiple unit passenger train built by Alstom for West Midlands Trains.

 

Abandoned train tunnel under Victoria Dock, London.

 

Many of these stored diesels are destined for scrap. The acres of locomotives sit idle at LTEX’s Lordstown, Ohio facility on Dec. 23, 2024. The reasons behind these engines’ retirement are varied.

 

The Talgo 1 trainset, was the first train developed by the Spanish company Talgo. 1942.

 

York (North) Locomotive Depot, 21 April 1961.

 

LNER Class A2 60532 'Blue Peter' on a West Coast line test run this month.

 

Class 25 diesel electric loco 1980.