Trains!

The afternoon Jacobite crosses Glenfinnan Viaduct -

Chicago–St. Louis Blue Bird just south of Palos Park, Ill., 1940s.

NYC train, engine number 5396, engine type 4-6-4 Train #41, Knickerbocker. Photographed: at St. Louis, Mo., August 16, 1940.

abandoned orient Express wagon

The Flåm Line (Norwegian: Flåmsbana) is a 20.2-kilometer (12.6 mi) long railway line between Myrdal and Flåm in Aurland, Norway. A branch line of the Bergen Line, it runs through the valley of Flåmsdalen and connects the mainline with Sognefjord. The line’s elevation difference is 863 meters (2,831 ft); it has ten stations, twenty tunnels and one bridge. The maximum gradient is 5.5 percent (1:18). Because of its steep gradient and picturesque nature, the Flåm Line is now almost exclusively a tourist service and has become the third-most visited tourist attraction in Norway.

ATSF#98 is an EMD FP45 locomotive at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, California. Taken August 04, 2003 by Pretzelpaws.

Northbound Kansas City Southern Railway local passenger train no. 10 leaves Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after crossing Mississippi River in May 1960. Photograph by J. Parker Lamb, © 2016, Center for Railroad Photography and Art. Lamb-02-071-04

From the Middlebrook Photographs of San Diego & Arizona Railway Locomotives

Letter from the Manager – Electric Equipment Company, Philadelphia to H.G. Lackey – Commander, Inspector Ordnances in Charge, Naval Proving Ground, Indian Head MD concerning purchase of medium size railway cars, with enclosed Electric Equipment Company brochures; File 2407-6, Folder 2; Central Subject Files of the Naval Powder Factory; 5th Naval District; RG 181 Records of the Naval Districts and Shore Establishments; National Archives at Philadelphia (NAID: 66540631) (HMS-ID: PH-6192).

Hogwarts Express in the Scottish Highlands on a rainy but magic day this December (2017). 

Probably my most favourite locomotive, No 34092 (City of Wells) in Lancashire, earlier this month. For more steam train pictures, follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steamtrainchick/

LN 753 on the Hummingbird East St Louis, IL 5/1/1969