Grim working conditions at Round Oak steelworks in the English midlands. 47350 (far left) waits to leave for Washwood Heath yard, near Birmingham, as 2 of the steelworks own shunting locos prepare... (more)
Metre gauge loco No 2506 arrives at the east end of Mymensingh with a busy commuter train. The loco was built in Japan in 1980.
Sprinter No 150124 arrives at Worcester Forgate St on the 1105 Great Malvern to Birmingham New St. The track layout is unusual here, as it is 2 separate single lines, one to serve Shrub Hill stati... (more)
Photo taken from an engineering train at London Waterloo in 1983. EMU No 508 019 leaves for Staines.
Surprising to find this still happening in 2017! This is Chartham, near Canterbury, in Kent. The crossing keeper is kept busy with 6 trains per hour, during the day.
Steam on 3 levels at the huge opencast pit at Sandaoling. 3 JS 2-8-2 locos are seen in 2005.
NS 6340 and friend at Hahira, Georgia, in 2013.
JS 2-8-2 No 8223 takes on coal at Gucheng. The coal is loaded from tubs on the adjacent narrow gauge track.
Surely, one of the ugliest loco types! Q1 No C1 is an austerity 0-6-0 built during WW2 by the Southern Railway. It is seen here in the National Railway Museum in York, England. In 1948 it became B... (more)
I saw this ALCo at Ciego De Avila, Cuba, in 2003. It is number 91401 and branded ACINOX. Does anyone know it`s history?
In heavy snow, narrow gauge C2 0-8-0 No 53 heads a Liushan to Weihe passenger train. The engineer oils the motion.
In the massive steel works at Anshan, here are 2 of their large fleet of SY 2-8-2 locos. Seen in March 2002.
In 2002 several class 781 diesel locos were stored in the goods shed at Cheb. I don`t think that they returned to service.
One of the most recognizable railway views today. It`s also a rare place where we are glad that trains no longer run. This is Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp where trainloads of Jews arrived... (more)
A good comparison between original (left) and rebuilt ChS4 locos. Seen at the passenger loco shed next to the main station in Kiev, Ukraine.