Electric, diesel and steam power are all lined up nicely in the late afternoon at Saarbrucken. A day off from my C-130 squadron at Rhein Main air base near Frankfurt allowed for a nice day of rail... (more)

A Deutsche Bundesbahn 2-10-0 pulls an eastbound freight and is about to pass 2-10-0 050 500 which has brought a local passenger train from Saarbrucken.

Two DB 23 class 2-6-2 locomotives, 072 and 044, run light through the Saarbrucken main station. This city hosted a number of the 2-6-2 types in 1970.

A view of the small motive power depot at Cochem showing former Prussian G10 0-10-0 No 57 1200 and a pair of BR 50 2-10-0s Nos 2646 and 2426. These engines were based here primarily to bank (pushe... (more)

Former Reichsbahn standard light Pacific No 03 032 built in 1931 arrives at Cochem with the 09.22 Koblenz to Trier Eilzug. Cochem bahnbetriebswerk (BW or shed) can be seen in the background with a... (more)

It is pouring with rain as the 08.13 Koln to Saarbrucken Eifel Schnellzug runs into Gerolstein station running 40 minutes late behind one of the few remaining former Prussian P10 three-cylinder 2-... (more)

DB light Pacific No 03 015 leaves Trier Hbf with the 14.40 D-Zug to Heidelberg via Saarbrucken.

One of the DB class 01 pacifics rebuilt with a large boiler arrives at Cochem with the 12.40 'personen zug' from Koblenz to Trier shortly before electric traction took over. School children surge ... (more)

In one of the classiest paint jobs around, somewhere in the Frankfurt am Main area. These B-B diesel-hydraulics were built by several manufacturers, including Krupp and some are still around. HP... (more)

A steam locomotive crew watch as one of the three prototype class E320 dual-voltage electric locos passes the freight locomotive depot at Saarbrucken with a freight train bound for France.

One of the clasic DB class 103 electric locos, painted in the later raspberry red livery, approaches St.Goar on the west bank of the River Rhine with the Inter-City train 'Konsul' from Kiel to Mun... (more)

From the first production batch of class E10 (later class 110) electric locos, No 110 107-0 has been rebuilt with a 'bugel' front in place of the orginal flat front probably as a result of acciden... (more)

A Frankfurt to Koblenz train leaves St.Goar on the west bank of the River Rhine behind a class 110 electric still in the original blue livery. Burg Katz can be seen high above the river on the lef... (more)

A southbound IC train passes through the small town of Bacharach on the west bank of the River Rhine. Anyone wanting to join for a glass of Rhine wine on the terrace?

A southbound freight train leaves the Loreley Tunnel on the east bank of the River Rhine hauled by a class 140 electric loco still in the orginal green livery.