Canadian National Manifest 570 is easing down the 2.2% grade at Bridge 56.6. The whining dynamic brakes are hard to hear over the crashing Cheakamus River, still running high with spring run-off.
NSB Di.3.631 with train 354 from Åndalsnes to Dombås is leaving the station. On the platform stands the bus that has brought passengers from Ålesund and behind the bus the modern station of the... (more)
SNCF BB 7340 with a freight to Modane. In the background the "Dent du Midi".
An Alaska Railroad freight pops out of the Portage Tunnel, crosses Placer Creek, and rolls through Bear Valley and will soon enter the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel. A 2.5 mile road/rail tunnel t... (more)
Eurocity "Transalpin" arrives to Schwarzach im Pongau to meet the Northbound Tauern Railjet (started this day as timetables changed). After a 3 min stop it'll head East to Graz. I had luck with th... (more)
"Allegra" ABe 8/12 # 3507 is pulling Regio 1621 St.Moritz-Tirano through the Montebello curve with Bellavista, Crast Agüzza, Piz Bernina (4048 m) and Piz Morteratsch in the background.
Railcars ABe 4/4 # 54 and # 56 of the RhB, called "TW III" (railcar third generation Bernina), with the BERNINA EXPESS 974 from Tirano to St.Moritz, are rounding the unique spiral viaduct of Brusi... (more)
Westbound No.14, the Coast Starlight for 5/27/17, has quite a consist. Leading over the Gaviota Trestle are P42DC No.165 and 172 followed by two new Sieman Chargers, No. 1402 and 1404 for Amtrak C... (more)
A couple visitors to the beaches of San Clemente gaze up at a late, daylight H-BARSDG1 as the train rolls along the Pacific Ocean on the ex-ATSF "Surf Line".
Waves are crashing into the seawall as a Class 150 / 153 set departs Dawlish. Today the seawall has been rebuilt with a higher wall and larger buffer to protect the railway from storms and waves.
Cross Country
A Metrolink commuter train passes the beaches of San Clemente bound for the Inland Empire.