Rio Grande and Southern Pacific ordered six 4000 HP diesel-hydraulic prototype units from Krauss-Maffei of Germany. Three Rio Grande #4001-4003 and three SP #9000-9002. Rio Grande kept them for ... (more)

Exactly on the date, but 58 years later, the classic 6000 HP Gotthard locomotive Ae 6/6 # 11407 "Aargau" made her second "maiden run", brought back mainly in the delivery state from 1956, with a l... (more)

The Nickel Plate concentrated on its freight business. Nevertheless the NKP did manage a comfortable passenger service, and in diesels opted for Alco's classic PA's. Chicago bound 'Bluebirds' 181... (more)

Blasting west under the old NYC Signal Bridge at Waterloo, Indiana on the Norfolk Southern Chicago Line. NKP 765 leads a 16 car employee special with no other power in sight. The experience of r... (more)

After nearly 50 years working in the commuter trains of the San Martín railroad, and because of the replacement by new units for this service, some of the ALCo RSD 16 were transferred to the inte... (more)

Little electric locomotive (in Switzerland called "Traktor") Te III # 130, mainly for shunting in stations, but also capable to go on the line with up to 60 km/h. Built in 1947 by SLM W... (more)

Like fresh from the factory, locomotive Ae 6/6 # 11407 "Aargau" is standing in front of the assembly hall of the former Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik Winterthur (SLM), wh... (more)

The first time presented to the public after 16 years of restoration by the owner: Steam cogwheel locomotive "Caspar Honegger", built in 1877 by Maschinenfabrik Aarau for the factory of Honegger i... (more)

Sixty years old former SBB diesellocomotive Bm 6/6 # 18501 (privately owned) brought back largely in the delivery state when the locomotive was built by SLM Winterthur in 1954. Two low-speed 6 cyl... (more)

The GP35's were never a real popular unit on CPR. After C-C power started arriving they quickly were lost in huge amounts of SD40/SD40-2's and even big M-Liner's. They tended to stay in secondary ... (more)

CN repainted 102 into classic green and gold with the more modern CN logo. It is hard to get it leading as it is used for HEP (head-end-power for the passenger cars) and runs in the trailing posit... (more)

The timeless elegant TRANS EUROP EXPRESS trainsets RAe TEE II were a technical masterpiece and pioneer work when new in 1961, capable to run under all 4 significant european railway power supply s... (more)