After more than 3 years of intensive testing it lasted just 40 days: the use of these highspeedtrains build by AnsaldoBreda (owned by Finmeccanica and located in Pistoia, Italy) between Amsterdam ... (more)

Due to the fact that loco's are changing from operator quite often, sometimes it is quite difficult to find out from which operator a train is that you pictured. The absence of any signs of an ope... (more)

Siemens has developed a successor for the Eurosprinter which couldn't compete anymore with the Traxx of Bombardier: the Vectron. Leasingcompany Railpool is one of the first customers for the Vectr... (more)

MWB 182 912-5 with a containertrain seen from the vineyards near Himmelstadt on the Gemünden-Würzburgline.

Syntus 3436 (rented from NS) as Grenslandexpres runs from Bad Bentheim to Hengelo and passes the former tower at Gildehaus. At Bad Bentheim, the current on the overheadwire changes from 1500 V DC ... (more)

DBS 1602 with a mixed freight from Onnen (near Groningen) to Kijfhoek (near Rotterdam).

DB ICE 4604 is running from Frankfurt (M) Hbf to Amsterdam Centraal. In about 20 minutes it will arrive at its destination. It has left Frankfurt at 5:10 AM and will arrive in Amsterdam at 9:26 AM... (more)

Locon 9904 (ex-NS 1631, Alsthom 1982) with a train loaded with waste from Apeldoorn to Wijster.

NS cancelled the order of 19 V250's at AnsaldoBreda, so these 'temporary' trains will remain for at least a while. HSA E 186 121 enters Amsterdam Centraal on a Breda-Amsterdam Centraal service. Th... (more)

NS 4235 + 4086 are on their way from Zwolle to Groningen near Staphorst. The concrete catenaryportals were placed in 1952.

NS is rebuilding all the DD-AR-sets. They all get the IC-paintscheme. Set 7542 near Amsterdam Geuzenveld.

NS Plan V 456 (Werkspoor 1970) enters Soestdijk on a Baarn-Utrecht Centraal service.

In June 2012, HSL Logistik bought 1832 (ex-NS 1632, Alsthom 1982) from NS Reizigers. It got a peculiar livery with tiny black and white rectangles. Here the loco with a kettletrain from Kijfhoek y... (more)

A mixed freight from Onnen to Kijfhoek just left Amersfoort. Al DBS 1600's that are still active are painted red.

This NS VIRM has got a special paint scheme on the occasion of the inauguration of King Willem-Alexander on April 30th. Here it leaves Den Helder Zuid for Nijmegen. On the foreground tulips for ex... (more)