A timely heads-up from a befriended train-driver was all the motivation required to prepare the night gear again and put into practice the lessons from previous times. The subject: an empty grain... (more)

Intermodal train towards the port of Antwerp on a snowy Friday morning.

While the sun still need to rise above the morning clouds, this Ambrogio shuttle between Gallarate (Italy) and Muizen (Belgium) is rolling through the sleeping village of Paliseul, about 100 miles... (more)

CFL 3011 + SNCB 1313 hauling a container train, are passing in Franières.

essai de traction de la HLE 1802

A fres look for this 1315, en waiting to enter te yard

1335+1340 with empty coal train 49816 Creutzwald - Antwerp. Usually this train consists of the empty coal cars of both trains 49813 and 49815. However, that day it was only half of the usual lengt... (more)

1317+1337 with 1800 tons of coal, approaching the station of Sint-Joris-Weert on railway line 139, between Leuven and Ottignies.

Due to maintenance work on line 50A, all railroad traffic was diverted via lines 75 and 66.

1316+1337 with coal train 49813 to Creutzwald between the tunnel of Gendron and the tunnel of Iny on the Athus-Meuse line.

1310+1307 with train 49813 in Pécrot. It's on this spot where one of the most serious railway accidents in Belgium took place on March 21, 2001.

1327+1308 on a sunny afternoon, just before entering the Vôneche tunnel on the Athus-Meuse line.

Coal train 49813 photographed in Wijgmaal, little time before reaching Leuven where this train will be split in half. The first part continues his journey to Creutzwald under the same train id 498... (more)

On a monday afternoon we decided to go for a trip to the Athus-Meuse line, which runs from Dinant to Luxembourg via one of the highest railpoints of Belgium: Bertrix. Close to that station, we ran... (more)

1307+1305 with 1800 tons of coal to Creutzwald.