On Mondays there are 2 switch crews based int he yard at Waterloo. Both jobs normally leave after 5pm to go out and do industry work around Waterloo. Even the yard is fairly empty 3 jobs are int h... (more)

A night portrait of Deutsche Reichsbahn's 0-6-0 steam locomotive Class 89 #1004 on the turntable of the loco shed "Bw Halle P". This "Prussian T 8" was built in 1906. A total o... (more)

Take A Spin On Your Anniversary. In preparation for its trip to Chicago later today as the trailing unit on the eastbound Southwest Chief, AMTK 822, wearing one of the commemorative paint s... (more)

This diminutive engine is probably the most used at the roundhouse. The ex - New York and Penn Paper diesel built in 1951 is used to move steam engines and rolling stock around the premises. Its s... (more)

The Iron Horses (Ferro-Equines) are tucked in their stalls. CP 1293 is a G-5 Class Pacific. Built in June of 1948 by the Canadian Locomotive Works in Kingston, Ont, she sits ready to go having jus... (more)

A night portrait of Deutsche Reichsbahn's electric locomotive Class 218 #031-3 on the turntable of the loco shed "Bw Halle P". This electric locomotive was built by AEG Berlin in 1937 as... (more)

A night portrait of Deutsche Reichsbahn's 2-10-0 Decapod steam locomotive on the turntable at the loco shed "Bw Halle P". 52 #9900-3 is the only preserved locomotive out of a series of 2... (more)

Two cogwheel steam locomotives in very similar paint scheme, but from different stages in the development of the system. The small 350 horsepower 0-4-2 HG 2/3 # 6 "Weisshorn" was built b... (more)

2-6-0 cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) running onto the turntable at Realp. The locomotive was built in 1914 by the SLM for the Brig-Furka-Disentis Rail... (more)

Meeting of the three different cogwheel steamlocomotive types of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke at the shed of Realp. On the left 600 horsepower HG 3/4 # 9 from 1914, which arrived with train # 1... (more)

Cogwheel steamlocomotive HG 3/4 # 9 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke (DFB) is beeing turned on the turntable of Realp. The 2-6-0 was built in 1914 by the SLM for the Brigue-Furka-Disentis Railwa... (more)

Switzerland has a new gem of a steamlocomotive! Cogwheel 0-8-0 HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke, built by SLM Winterthur in 1923 and delivered to Indochina (now Vietnam) for the lin... (more)

Switzerland has a new gem of a steamlocomotive! Cogwheel 0-8-0 HG 4/4 # 704 of the Dampfbahn Furka Bergstrecke, built by SLM Winterthur in 1923 and delivered to Indochina (now Vietnam) for the lin... (more)

Santa Fe, Northern, and Santa Fe! Depicted here, a Santa Fe F7 A Unit classic soaks in warm museum lighting in display as a shortline steam locomotive No. 112 and a Santa Fe "Chief" priv... (more)

Having some electrical work done, AMTK 503 finds itself on one of the Redondo turntable's whisker tracks this morning as the ex-ATSF cantilever signal bridge here stands sentinel in the background... (more)