Morning rain eventually disappeared & the Canadian main cleared up for the 2024 CPKC Holiday Train to get underway on it's Day-2 northbound trip back to Canada. Seen as it powered out of the city ... (more)

CSX 2024 Santa Train passing the turntable at Dante Yard

Live load on a flat wagon of the loaded ore train from Zouérate/Fderîck to Nouadhibou. The 8 dromedaries are only a few minutes away from their destination after a journey of 15 to 18 hours.

On this day, Mauritania's “Train du Désert� set off for the first time with a foreign tour group (Servrail from Switzerland) from Ben Amira (PK 393) westwards to the port of Nouadhibou, runni... (more)

Arrival of a work train loaded with new concrete ties from Nouadhibou in Boulenouar (PK 96) in the evening. The SNIM has a own tie production work in Nouadhibou. The train was parked overnight and... (more)

Empty ore train including some loaded water tankers running through Ben Amira at PK 394 of the 650 kilometer long single track railroad from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. Pulling are SDL40-2 locomotive... (more)

Rocky Mount to Wilmington road local L225 switches Milan Yard in Fayetteville, pausing next to some of the late peaking fall colors on trees that lined downtown streets the day before Thanksgiving... (more)

AF27 passes the fixed semaphore approach signal to the CSX diamond at Fayetteville with a couple GP38s leading a single lumber car bound for a customer west of town.

Empty ore train including some loaded water tankers running through Boulenouar at PK 97 of the 650 kilometer long single track railroad from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. Pulling are SDL40-2 locomotive... (more)

On this day, Mauritania's “Train du Désert� set off for the first time with a foreign tour group (Servrail from Switzerland) from Ben Amira (PK 393) westwards to the port of Nouadhibou, runni... (more)

It is very surprising that there are very few photos from Mauritania on Railpictures.net yet, although diesel locomotives from the USA have been in service there for over 40 years. Let's start wit... (more)

Heading from "Hollywood" to "Buena Vista Street" is "Pacific Electric" trolley 623, about to pass the Elias & Company store.

Why the quotation marks? We... (more)

Due to a variety of factors, primarily both problems with aging Pacific Surfliner cars and the Thanksgiving passenger crush, Amtrak sent some of their northern California equipment south to... (more)

Locomotive Skoda ES 499.0

Twin locomotive Skoda E 479.1