The crew of preserved Romanian 230.516 share some conversation while waiting in the hole for the regular passenger service. While the narrow gauge logging lines in Romania are relatively well kno... (more)

Semboro Sugar Mill in East Java once boasted 300 km of narrow gauge track. Even in 2008, 100 km remained active although largely in the care of diesel traction. One of the last active steam loco... (more)

The temperature is hovering around zero as a weak winter sun throws its first rays over the land, revealing a pair of QJ's about to start up the east ramp of Jingpeng Pass. Although this scene is... (more)

The early morning sun has just risen, illuminating the locomotive's motion, an area typically lost in shadow.

D&S K-28 #473 heads a railroad-sponsored photographers' special through Animas Canyon at the peak of the colorful autumn leaves

A trio of UP locomotives lead by 7929 tread carefully down the long grade on the D&RGW main from Soldier Summit to Helper and Price on an early autumn morning.

Demodara features a spiral constructed in 1921 to allow the railway to maintain an already gruelling 1:44 (2.3%) gradient on its mountainous "main line". Here a 2012-built Chinese DMU set hauled ... (more)

Adjacent to Lion's Mouth (see photo 566118) is a short tunnel through a feature known as Elephant's Back. Here the Farrail.net photo freight approaches this tunnel in the "up" direction ... (more)

The clouds parted ever so briefly to reveal the Farrail.net steam charter in the "loop", awaiting overtaking by a regular service train. This station is at 1615 metres (5298 feet) above... (more)

In time honored tradition, the signalman deftly returns the "Down Main Inner Home" signal to the "on" (or "stop") position after a Kandy-bound train has cleared the s... (more)

The east side of Jinpeng pass tends to be drier with whatver snow there is being blown away by the ever-blowing wind. Nonetheless, the cold crisp winter air yielded some wonderful steam vapor sho... (more)

The tramway in Halberstadt, a town of 40,000 people in the former East Germany, is remarkable for having survived - to this day. In 1993, fearing that most of the small eastern German town tramw... (more)

In addition to running a beautifully restored car from what was claimed to be the smallest street railway in the British Empire prior to its abandonment in 1947, Nelson's tourist tramway's western... (more)

Back in 1975, this is what most trains were "supposed" to look like: a pair of Geeps pulling endless strings of mineral red 40 foot boxcars. How things have changed though Canadian Paci... (more)

Sprinter local train. Gouda-Woerden. Train frequencies on this line are subway-like: always a train in sight.