for me at the time the most beautiful Locomotive at ÖBB, the Special Paint of the Fire Brigade Association of Lower Austria is the latest advertising Locomotive for ÖBB.

At the CN's Family Day at Taschereau Yard in Montreal PQ, the engineering department was showing a rail exothermic welding demonstration. Thermite welding is widely used to weld railway rails. The... (more)

On the 10th of January 2012, a train dumps a load of molten slag at the Beitai Steel Works in NE China. The site was first visited by foreign steam photographers in 2002. Since that time the manag... (more)

Taurus ÖBB 1016 048-1 on promo coat FEUERWEHR ready to connect freight train from Summerau in Linz.

CZ / 196 Summerau - Linz

Flames fully engulf the somewhat famed former Southern Pacific Sherwood Trestle now owned by the Portland Western Railroad. On Aug 10 at around 4pm the bridge caught fire fully engulfing the brid... (more)

This is what remains of the somewhat famed former Southern Pacific Sherwood Trestle now owned by the Portland Western Railroad, a lot of it's fame came from the SP4449 making it's way to Sherwood ... (more)

Regular fireman R.D. of the "Pacific" 01 202 steamlocomotive prepared a hellish fire for the fast trip from Basel to Olten, runing mainly in the range between 100 and 120 km/h. He is jus... (more)

Fireman J.H. is throwing a shovel full excellent silesian coal into the firebox of "Pacific" express train steamlocomotive 01 202 during a short stop in Kreuzlingen Hafen. Second driver (compulsor... (more)

The firebox on an N&W J is 578 square feet. All of which was hot and ready the morning of May 29, 2015. The crew was getting 611 ready for her big return to Roanoke.

Fireman Peter is throwing some more coal into the firebox of "Mogul" B 3/4 # 1367 before the run through the 15 kilometer long Gotthard tunnel to Airolo, pulled by Ae 6/6 # 11411 from SB... (more)

Stressfull? Hardly... After a cold winter, cutting rail the steel will expand (pull); now with the mild temperatures we destress the track (contract). With no hydraulic pullers available, we make ... (more)

A loaded export taconite train passes a prescribed burn near Matfield Green. The state of Kansas allows burning of prairie during the month of April, and the smoke and smell of fires is ever prese... (more)