View from the peak Rochers de Naye (2045 meters over sealevel) to the station Rochers de Naye (1970 meters over sealevel) and the first part of the track downhill. Left the railcar from Montreux t... (more)

Train from Pilatus Kulm (2073 meters over sealevel) to Alpnachstad near the upper station in the eveningsun. This railcar is running downhill, that's why the pantograph is not in use. In the backg... (more)

Train from Pilatus Kulm (2073 meters over sealevel) to Alpnachstad near the upper station. This railcar is running downhill, that's why the pantograph is not in use

Train from Pilatus Kulm (2073 meters over sealevel) to Alpnachstad near the upper station. This railcar is running downhill, that's why the pantograph is not in use. In the background a wonderful ... (more)

Railcar from Alpnachstad to Pilatus Kulm (2073 meters over sealevel), taken from a extraordinary place. In few seconds the railcar will running in the Fleimen-Tunnel

It's not quite as fancy as Switzerland's Landwasserviadukt, but New Zealand makes do with the locality of Staircase (population:0). After leaving an unmanned passing loop of the same name, wes... (more)

Electric cogwheel railcar Bhe 1/2 # 28 on a grade of about 48 % in the "Eselwand" (donkey wall) on the way up to Pilatus Kulm. The Pilatus Railway is the world's steepest cogwheel railway with the... (more)

Electric cogwheel railcar Bhe 1/2 # 27 from 1937 on the Mattalp going down to Alpnachstad. In the background Stanserhorn (foreground) with Ruchstock behind, on the left Urirotstock.

Electric cogwheel railcars Bhe 1/2 # 24 and # 22 (both built by SLM and MFO in 1937) on a grade of about 48.0 % below Pilatus Kulm. The world's steepest cogwheel railway was inaugurated in 1889 an... (more)

The symmetry of the coal loads are visible as this coal drag is about to enter the Harpers Ferry tunnel after crossing the Potomac.

CEY005 leads two sister locomotives up through Glenbrook Gorge at the foot of the Blue Mountains with a westbound empty SSR/Centennial coal train.

View from the Polleroswand on the Krauselklause viaduct and tunnel.

The Schlossalm mountain railroad didn't had any runs planned anymore that day, but freight trains were running one after another thanks to the Brenner pass closure.

A SD70M-2 helps push an empty coal train into the All Natural Tunnel in Glenita, Virginia.

Looking like a well-detailed scene from an ambitious model railroad, a pair of GP-60s skirts South Boulder Creek below my precarious vantage point. The two loaded coal hoppers were bad ordered and... (more)