Thursday, August 28, 2025

Union Pacific Railroad locomotive, DDA40X class locomotive, identified by the "UNION PACIFIC" lettering on its side and the visible number "18". Union Pacific DDA40X #6918 was one of the 47 "Centennial" locomotives built by EMD for Union Pacific.

 


Variations of the Bullet trains at a depot near Tokyo.


 

Two Shinkansen "bullet trains" at a station in Japan. Shinkansen trains are known for their speed, efficiency, and distinctive aerodynamic design, capable of reaching speeds up to 320 km/h (200 mph) on certain routes.


 

RRF 4401 electric locomotive, originally an NS 1600 series locomotive, operated by Rotterdam Rail Feeding (RRF). RRF specializes in shunting services and short-distance train hauling for other railway companies, particularly in the Rotterdam harbor area.


 

SNCF Class BB 9400 electric locomotive, specifically BB 9401, known for its lightweight design and nicknamed "Vespa". A total of 135 units were produced between 1967 and 1969, numbered 9401 to 9535.


 

Monday, August 25, 2025

Thursday, August 21, 2025

The fourfold steam locomotive, hauling five carriages, was passing through Keighley en route to its West Coast Railways base at Carnforth. Engines – Merchant Navy class 35016 British India Line, the Royal Scot class 46115 Scots Guardsman, Jubilee class Galatea running as classmate 45627 Sierra Leone, and Black Five 44932 – were returning 'home' from a major railways celebration in Derbyshire.


 

Siemens Charger B+AC battery-electric locomotive, part of the Metro-North Railroad fleet in New York.


 



Midland Railway Lickey Banker nicknamed "Big Bertha" - one of a kind - was scrapped in 1957. This powerful 0-10-0 tender locomotive, numbered 58100 in British Railways days, was designed specifically to bank trains up the 1 in 38 two-mile incline between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green in Worcestershire. The incline was and is the steepest main line bank in Britain. "Big Bertha" was built at Derby in 1919 to the design of the Midland Railway acting Chief Mechanical Engineer, James Anderson. It had four 16 x 28 inch cylinders, two inside and two outside, driving the 4 feet 71⁄2 inch diameter driving wheels. A large lamp was fitted over the smokebox door to illuminate the rear of the train being banked for safety reasons. It spent its entire working life of 37 years banking the Lickey. It was a hard act to follow, and was replaced at different times by GWR 2-8-0 tank engines, GWR 0-6-0 pannier tank engines, LMS 0-6-0 "Jinty" tank engines, BR Standard 9F 2-10-0 locomotives and, later, diesel locomotives. The image shows "Big Bertha", then numbered 2290, in Midland Railway livery shortly after being built.


 




Norfolk Southern (NS) SD70ACe locomotive No.1080, which was unveiled in 2025 as a heritage unit to honour the history of the Delaware & Hudson (D&H) Railway. The locomotive was painted in the D&H's iconic "lightning stripe" scheme at NS's Juniata Locomotive Shop and began revenue service in August 2025, leading the first train on a historic D&H route in New England.


 

ÖBB Railjet train, which is a high-speed rail service operated by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) and Czech Railways (ČD).


 

Two British Rail Class 720 Aventra electric multiple unit (EMU) trains at London Liverpool Street station, operated by Greater Anglia.


 

Sunday, August 17, 2025

British Rail, Derby Lightweight diesel multiple unit, a type of train built in Derby from 1954 to 1955, passing a GCR loco 65894, a J27 Class steam locomotive.


 

The Shinkansen train, commonly known as the "bullet train," is in Japan.


 

Plasser & Theurer AFM 2000 RT track finishing machine, a high-capacity machine designed for track maintenance.


 

NS Intercity Materieel (ICM) train, commonly known as "Koploper". The ICM is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways).


 

New South Wales Government loco, 3801 steam locomotive, arguably Australia's most famous steam locomotive, operated in Australia from 1943.


 

British Rail Class 66 locomotive, DB Cargo 66 200. Video of inside the cab.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=698523566334784