Skirting the spectacular Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, an international freight train has just cleared Zimbabwe Customs and is heading towards Livingstone across the border in Zambia. Take... (more)

Today steamlocomotive H 1/2 7, built in 1873, was officially on the mountain for the first time after 12 years in the Swiss Transport Museum Lucerne. The red car B 5 dates from 1871, when the Rigi... (more)

Steep grade 17% for this 750mm dmu of the rack railway Diakofto-Kalavryta.

Overview of Kleine Scheidegg station. The rail on the left (upper) leads to Lauterbrunnen, the one to the bottom comes to Jungfraujoch, where this picture is taken from, and the one to the right g... (more)

Train departure from ended station Rigi Kulm (1800 meters - 6000 feet) to Goldau.

The two Bhe 4/8 railcars are slowly descending the steep track above Riffelalp towards Zermatt, with the Matterhorn in the background. First snow fell two days before.

Amtrak makes its way through Gore Canyon with a very smokey #2 locomotive.

This train is nearly 1,000 feet under the Royal Gorge Suspended Bridge, pulling a daily passenger excursion.

When this line was still the Bodensee Toggenburg Bahn, the 16.18 St.Gallen to Herisau train crosses the Sitter Viaduct as it leaves the city of St.Gallen. This is one of those alarming locations w... (more)

A birds eye view from Maryland Heights as an eastbound Capitol Limited eases past CSX MOW track equipment forces working on the Shenandoah Sub. The two subdivisions join inside the Harpers Ferry t... (more)

Along the mighty Mississipp'.

A block freight full of cars at Assopos creek. On the head is A509 MLW class 500, 3.650hp, 126t

SD80MACs CSXT 812 and 805 lead a coal train across the Potomac River. The river is running very high and swift due to the recent rainfall and snow melt. The lower town of Harpers Ferry can be seen... (more)