One of the diesel-powered Trans Europ Express trains nears Hamburg on its northbound run in the late afternoon.

A large 0-10-0T tank engine drifts downgrade light running in reverse.

One of the many German 2-10-0's runs light near Hamburg.

A big, oil-burning Pacific sits in the Hamburg central station with a passenger train. I recall that the young woman sitting on the stool was sketching at the time and is ignoring the perfect subj... (more)

A Duetsche Bundesbahn 4-6-0 hustles towards Hamburg HBF with a local train. There was plenty of steam here in 1963 but concrete bases had already been laid for electrification.

SJ streamlined electric 847, Rapid 2, backs into Gothenburg station to pick up a train. This was the summer that I worked as a student in Gothenburg.

SJ streamlined electric 937, Rapid 3, is shown next to the terminal tower in Gothenburg. A college student work exchange program allowed me to visit Europe for the first time and work in this city... (more)

Reading crane 90906 and Jersey Central crane 5 and accompanying cars are at East Penn Jct. to clean up a derailment of several freight cars.

Brand-new Budd RDCs 9156 & 9155 sit on display at Bethlehem. The trucks and undercarriage were painted blue which brought to mind the 1937 streamlined G1sas Pacifics that pulled the Budd-built CRU... (more)

Lehigh and Hudson River RS-3 units 11, 2 and 10 pull a morning eastbound freight from Allentown Yard. The freight will proceed over the Jersey Central to Phillipsburg, NJ. The last RS-3 is in a si... (more)

Reading GP30 5505 is less than a year old and paired with FM H24-66 TrainMaster 808. The eastbound freight will soon cross the Lehigh River and proceed down the Bethlehem Branch on this early morn... (more)

Brand new GP18 units 1804 and 1800 are switching at Passaic Jct. in Saddle Brook, NJ. The three EMD units were the first new diesels bought by the railroad for many years. The Susquehanna had pow... (more)

The refurbished driving wheel sets for FLYING SCOTSMAN arrived at the York workshop during my visit. The leading set has already been installed and it is interesting to see the cranked middle axle... (more)

The last steam locomotive built for British Railways is 92220, EVENING STAR, constructed at Swindon in 1960. It has been exhibited at the National Railway Museum for some time but was sandwiched b... (more)

One of the railroad's new E9 units pulls a one car mid-day train to Elgin, Ill.