MY 1155 in new Norwegian livery on 5 February 2022
Under threatening skies Altmark Rail MY 1155 departs Gross Ammensleben (DE) as photo freight train 95453 from Oebisfelde to Barleben.
More pictures of this photo trip on 5 February 2022 you will find here or click on the picture.
France September 2021
MFPN CC40110 pulls five coaches and SNCF 469432 as an excursion special from Paris Est to Reims at Troissy on 18 September 2021.
More pictures of trains in France in September 2021 you will find here or click on the picture.
Czech Republic August 2021
In the tornado aftermath CD 754 019 pulls CD 1216 903 and 5 PKP coaches (train EC 106 Wien Hbf - Gdynia Glowna) through the partly wireless railway line from Breclav to Hodonin at Mikulcice on 25 August 2021.
More pictures taken in the Czech Republic in August 2021 you will find here or click on the picture.
Balaton diesel retro day in Hungary on 7 August 2021
MAV Nosztalgia M61 006 + 1 generator car + 5 MAV coaches as train IC 19703 (Tapolca - Budapest-Deli) at Nemesgulacs-Kisapati on 7 August 2021.
More pictures of this diesel retro day you will find here or click on the picture.
Rhine Main 2021
SGL V 270.09 (221 121) approaches Mainz-Bischofsheim with work train 55935 (Wuerzburg Hbf - Neuss Gbf) on 25 September 2021.
More pictures taken in the Rhine Main area in Germany in 2021 you will find here or click on the picture.
Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum & BayernBahn photo trains on 23 July 2021
Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum 194 192 pulls ten open top hoppers type Fc as train 69303 (Noerdlingen - Donauwoerth) across the Woernitz River bridge in front of Harburg Castle in Harburg, Germany.
More pictures taken from this excellent special foto train day in the Ries meteor crater you will find here or click on the picture.
Winterly MY 1149 in spring time
There is only one month left until the next major overhaul is due for Altmark Rail MY 1149. On May 30, 2021 it hauled Strabag work train 56030 (Wuerzburg Hbf, D - Oebisfelde, D) under the license of Eichholz Eifel
at Wernfeld (Germany).
Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate 2021
On 29 March 2021 Saar Rail used Bayernbahn 151 119 (rented via Leipziger Dampf KulTour) to haul liquid iron train 91305 from Dillingen Hochofen to Voelklingen, here seen at arrival at Voelklingen in front of the Unesco World Heratige
Site of Voelklinger Huette (an old iron factory).
More pictures taken in the Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate area in Germany in 2021 you will find here or click on the picture.
Rhine Main 2020
Lokomotion 151 060 passed the historic scenery at Oberwesel (D) as train 41859 from Koeln Eifeltor (D) to Trieste Campo Marzio (I) 27 March 2020.
More pictures taken in the Rhine Main area in Germany in 2020 you will find here or click on the picture.
Nahe and Hunsrueck 2020
DB Bahnbau used EfW 221 122 to transfer some empty flat cars from Koblenz-Luetzel to Saarbruecken, here seen leaving the tunnel at Staudernheim on 17 April 2020.
More pictures taken in the Nahe and Hunsrueck area in Germany you will find here or click on the picture.
Kinzigtalbahn 2020
BSAS EuroDual 5000 159 208 (leased from European Loc Pool) hauls tank car train 43395 (Karlsruhe West - Schoena) through the characteristic Wirtheim station on 15 April 2020.
More pictures taken in the Kinzig Valley in Germany you will find here or click on the picture.
Altmark Rail MY 1149 along the Rhine on 14 November 2020
Altmark Rail MY 1149 was used by Eichholz Eivel to transport some yellow equipment as train 92811 from Gladbeck West (D) to Gemuenden am Main (D) at Bopparder Hamm on 14 november 2020.
More pictures of this train you will find here or click on the picture.
"Hoer das Signal Berlin" 28 September 2020 protest train
Under deafening macrophone sounds Press 145 030 + Captrain 159 103 + IGE 185 685 + IGE 185 678 + RCA 189 286 + Arcelor 145-CL 001 + Hector Rail 241 007 + boxXpress.de 193 536 + RheinCargo 185 350 + hvle 159 001 +
Lineas 186 258 + Metrans 187 511 + EGP 192 104 + SBB Cargo International 193 518 (+ RTB Cargo 186 423 + LTE 193 232 + TXL 193 996 + ecco rail 186 531 + e.g.o.o. 192 001 + Press 285 104) pass the Jannowitzbruecke
in the heart of political Berlin on 28 September 2020.
More pictures of this protest train you will find here or click on the picture.
France 2020
SNCF 15014 pulls nince SNCF Intercities coaches as TER 3121 (Paris St. Lazare - Le Havre) just east of Motteville on 21 July 2020.
More pictures of trains in France in 2020 you will find here or click on the picture.
RWE crocodiles on 10 September 2020
RWE crocodile 557 just left the Niederzier loading area with a coal train bound for the Neurath REW power plant on 10 September 2020.
More pictures of RWE crocodiles on 10 September 2020 you will find here or click on the picture.
Czech Republic 2020
Retro CD 560 023 (SM 488 0023)/560 024 (SM 488 0024) as train Os 4919 (Tisnov - Zidlochovice) accelarates out of Cebin on 10 August 2020.
More pictures taken in the Czech Republic in 2020 you will find here or click on the picture.
Class 2143 revisited in Austria on 8 August 2020
regiobahn Leiser Berge 2143 062 hauls three regiobahn Leiser Berge coaches as train EZ 7490 (Wien Praterstern - Ernstbrunn-Leiser Berge) uphill at Hetzmannsdorf on 8 August 2020.
More pictures of this Class 2143 diesel locomotive revisited day you will find here or click on the picture.
Balaton diesel retro day in Hungary on 1 August 2020
MAV Nosztalgia M61 001 + 1 generator car + 5 MAV coaches as train D 19707 (Tapolca - Budapest-Deli) at Orvenyes on 1 August 2020.
More pictures of this diesel retro day you will find here or click on the picture.
Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bayern on 27 July 2020
Wedler Franz Logistik used Akiem 146 521 to push four SRI double-deck coaches as Abellio replacement train IRE 95855 (Stuttgart Hbf - Tuebingen Hbf) at Tuebingen-Lustnau on 27 July 2020.
More pictures of the Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bayern trip on 27 July 2020 you will find here or click on the picture.
The Netherlands 2020
Strukton 1824 (570 824) hauls Strukton Universal Taper 4.0 and Strukton 275 307 as train 55101 (Leeuwarden - Roosendaal) at Blauwkapel on 31 March 2020.
More pictures taken in the Netherlands in 2020 you will find here or click on the picture.
Marschbahn June 2020
Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsgesellschaft Pressnitztalbahn mbH 218 055 + 218 054 were hired by Deutsche Bahn to pull IC 2311 (Westerland - Stuttgart Hbf), here seen at the eastern inward semaphore signal at Klanxbuell on 22 June 2020.
More pictures of the Marschbahn in June 2020 you will find here or click on the picture.
Rhoenbahn on 15 April 2020
RIS 218 468 and Lappwaldbahn Cargo 225 101 try to negotiate a fresly ballasted, but not yet stabilised track, at Luetter on their way to Gersfeld on 15 April 2020.
More pictures of this work train on the Rhoenbahn on 15 April 2020 you will find here or click on the picture.
USA tour in March 2020
After having dropped of the loaded cattle feed covered hoppers at a farm en route The Apache Railway 81 and 98 run through the S-curve with only cars for storage at Heber on 5 March 2020.
More pictures of the USA March 2020 trip (with big thanks to the two The Apache Railway ladies) you will find here or click on the picture.
A morning in Kresnice (Slovenia) on 20 February 2020
SZ 363 020 hauls a block train of grain cars as train 48788 (Sezana - Sredisce) through Kresnice on 20 February 2020.
More pictures of this brief visit to Slovenia on 20 February 2020 you will find here or click on the picture.
HoHAB M61 and Ganz-MAVAG M40 gathering in Hungary on 28 December 2019
MAV Nosztalgia M61 019 + MAV Nosztalgia M61 020 + MAV Nosztalgia M61 001 + MAV Rt. PMLI Technologiai kozpont M61 017 + 8 MAV Nosztalgia coaches run uphil at Baracska (H) on their way from
Budapest-Kelenföld (H) to Tapolca (H) on 28 December 2019.
More pictures of this gathering on 28 December 2019, you will find here or click on the picture.
France 2019
SNCF 425615 pulls RIO set 236 as train 831316 from Selestat (F) to Strasbourg (F) at Ebersheim (F) on 30 August 2019.
More pictures of trains in France in 2019 you will find here or click on the picture.
JHMD visit on 7 October 2019
Lights on. The ground is still frozen. JHMD T47 015 hauls one coach as train 21203 (Obratan, CZ - Jindrichuv Hradec, CZ) at Gabrielka (CZ) on 7 October 2019.
More pictures of the JHMD visit on 7 October 2019, you will find here or click on the picture.
Poland and Ukraine tour in April 2019
Ivano-Frankivsk Cement M62yp-0031 hauls a lime stone train from Dubivtsi to Jamnyzja at Jesupil (UA) on 24 April 2019.
More pictures of the Poland and Ukraine April 2019 tour undertaken with the great company and brilliant guidance of Sjefke, the substation manager, you will find here or click on the picture.
Bangladesh tour in January 2019
Bangladesh Railways 2022 crosses the Titas River bridge at Akhaura with a container train from Dhaka to Chittagong on 13 January 2019.
More pictures of the Bangladesh January 2019 tour you will find here or click on the picture.
Central Europe tour in July and August 2018
Strabag roundnose 1227 007 departs the industrial siding at Bernburg (D) with a cement klinker train towards Köthen on 25 July 2018.
More pictures of the Central Europe tour in July and August 2018 you will find here or click on the picture.
Roundnose gathering in Hungary on 30 December 2017
MNOS M61.019 + KV 459.021 + KV 459.022 + MAV M61.017 + 9 MNOS coaches (train Vulkan from Budapest Kelenfold to Tapolca via Aszofo) pass an expired vulcano at Tapolca on 30 December 2017.
More pictures of the Hungarian roundnose gathering on 30 December 2017 you will find here or click on the picture.
Slovenia tour in September 2017
Under a threathening sky SZ 363 038 heads an RCA container train from Spielfeld-Strass (A) to Koper at Grobelno on 14 September 2017.
More pictures of the Slovenia tour in September 2017 you will find here or click on the picture.
Sardinia tour in July 2017
As the only D445 active on this day FS D445 1038 hauls train REG 268882 (Cagliari - Oristano) on the new railway alignment just south of San Gavino Monreale on 10 July 2017.
More pictures of the Sardinia tour in July 2017 you will find here or click on the picture.
France 67400 tour in June 2017
SNCF 567523 takes three empty sleeper coaches from Rodez to Albi Ville across the impressive Viaduc de Viaur (the first large steel bridge built in France completed in 1902) near Tanus on 18 June 2017.
More pictures of the 67400 trip in France in June 2017 you will find here or click on the picture.
France nez casse tour in April 2017
SNCF 522269 leads TER train 17817 (Dijon Ville - Lyon Part Dieu) at Varrennes-le-Grand (F) on 11 April 2017.
More pictures of nez casse (broken nose) trip in France in April 2017 you will find here or click on the picture.
USA tour in March 2017
Florida East Coast Railway 811 and 803 sandwich FEC LNG tender 302, taking northbound intermodal train 226 (Hialeah Yard - Bowden Yard) across the San Sebastian River on 11 March 2017.
More pictures of the USA March 2017 trip you will find here or click on the picture.
Roundnose gathering in Hungary in December 2016
Now this is a nice passenger train: MNOS M61.006+MNOS M61.001+MNOS M61.020+MNOS M61.019+NOHAB-GM M61.010+KV 459.021+KV 459.022+MAV M61.017 + 12 MNOS coaches + 1 MAV generator car
round the curve at Fule as train 13290 (Budapest Ferencvaros - Tapolca) on 30 December 2016.
More pictures of the Tapolca NoHAB 2016 event you will find here or click on the picture.
Roundnose gathering in Australia in October 2016
During the night of 1 October 2016 the Streamliners 2016 event in Goulburn (Australia) the following bulldog noses were amongst others enjoying some attention (from left to right):
Lachlan Valley Railway 4204;The Heritage Locomotive Company 42101;Transport Heritage NSW 4490;Qube 4477;SSR B65;SSR S302;PN S306;SSR S317;CF Rail Services S300;Lachlan Alco Group 4486.
More pictures of the Streamliners 2016 event and some others of regular trains you will find here or click on the picture.
Baltic States diesel tour in May and June 2016
LG 2M62M-0383 negotiates the S-curve at Pakalniskes (Lithuania) with an oil train from Belarusia via Kena to Vaidotai on 5 June 2016.
More pictures of the Baltic States diesel tour you will find here or click on the picture.
South American diesel tour in November 2015
TA NoHAB 110 (ex-CP) approaches Canuelas (AR) as train 376 (Saladillo - Temperley) on Linea Roca on 21 November 2015.
More pictures of the South American diesel tour (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) you will find here or click on the picture.
Eastern Europe tour in May 2014
LDZ 2TE10Y-0185 nears Krustpils (LV) with a mixed freight train from Riga (LV) to Daugavpils (LV) on 26 May 2014.
More pictures of the Eastern Europe May 2014 tour undertaken with the great company and brilliant guidance of Sjefke, the substation manager, you will find here or click on the picture.
Ukraine WL8 tour in May 2013
One of the highlights of the trip: both blue livered UZ WL8m-1000 and UZ WL8-941 haul a freight train from Dniprodzerzhynsk to Dnipropetrovsk near 178 KM station on 21 May 2013.
More pictures of the Ukraine WL8 tour you will find here or click on the picture.
Poland Silesia tour in April 2011
PKP Cargo ET41-08 hauls an east bound coal train at Gliwice Labedy on 19 April 2011.
More pictures of the Poland Silesia April 2011 tour you will find here or click on the picture.
Roundnose trip to Kosovo in August 2009
Strabag MY 1125 passes with five IGE coaches as train 12341 (Kelebia, H - Zvecan, KS) the more than 1000 year old church Stara Pavlica at Brvenik (SRB) on 23 August 2009.
More pictures of the roundnose trip to Kosovo in August 2009 you will find here or click on the picture.
Eastern Europe tour in August and September 2004
PKP SU45-197 takes a rake of three double-deck coaches as train 58833 from Tczew (PL) to Chojnice (PL) at Czarna Woda (PL) on 10 September 2004.
More pictures of the Eastern Europe tour in August and September 2004 you will find here or click on the picture.
Scandinavia tour in May and June 2000
Paradise! NSB Di3.641 briefly disturbs the peaceful scene at Flatmark with train 2354 from Andelsnes to Dombås on 25 May 2000.
More pictures of the Scandinavie May and June 2000 tour you will find here or click on the picture.
Dutch highlights in 2000
ACTS 1254 and ACTS 6701 haul container train 98249 (Onnen, NL - Kijfhoek, NL) at 't Harde on 19 March 2000.
More pictures of the highlights in the Netherlands in 2000 you will find here or click on the picture.
Denmark tour in May 1999
Skagensbanen M 9 and TSP 202.020 provide the traction for a four DSB coach special from Skagen to Frederikshavn at Bunken on 15 May 1999.
More pictures of the Denmark May 1999 tour you will find here or click on the picture.
Dutch highlights in 1999
ShortLines used HGK DE 13 (one of the three type MaK DE 1024 locomotives) to haul Rail Terminal Born train 98101 (Europoort P&O NSF, NL - Sittard, NL) at Barendrecht Vork on 14 April 1999.
More pictures of the highlights in the Netherlands in 1999 you will find here or click on the picture.
Highlights of 1997
CP 028 hauls two coaches and a conductor car along the Tua river on its way from Mirandela (PT) to Tua (PT) at Abreir (PT) on 29 April 1997.
More pictures of the highlights of 1997 you will find here or click on the picture.
Highlights of 1996
Mat. '54 lineup of (from left to right) 766, 765, 763, 388, 381, 386 and 770 at Amsterdam Dijksgracht on 14 January 1996.
More pictures of the highlights of 1996 you will find here or click on the picture.
Highlights of 1995
Mat. '54 374 and 381 tow Mat. '46 273 from Amersfoort to Haarlem east of Baarn on 8 December 1995.
More pictures of the highlights of 1995 you will find here or click on the picture.
Highlights of 1994
NSB Di3.626 hauled a passenger train from Andelsnes (N) to Oslo S (N) along Trollveggen (Troll Wall) at Skiri on 24 July 1994.
More pictures of the highlights of 1994 you will find here or click on the picture.
Highlights of 1993
Amtrak FL9 486 skirts the Hudson River with a passenger train from Montreal to New York Central at Peekskill (USA) on 10 October 1993.
More pictures of the highlights of 1993 you will find here or click on the picture.
Highlights of 1992
Hondekop (dog face) 342 departs Marienberg (NL) on its way from Emmen (NL) to Zwolle (NL) on 30 December 1992.
More pictures of the highlights of 1992 you will find here or click on the picture.
Dutch and some French and German highlights in 1991
NS 168 leaves Budel (NL) as special excursion train 37331 (Budel, NL - Roermond, NL) on 13 April 1991.
More pictures of the highlights in the Netherlands and some in France and Germany in 1991 you will find here or click on the picture.
Dutch and some Belgium and German highlights in 1990
NS 1149 hauls six NMBS M2 coaches as train 4675 (Zwolle, NL - Roosendaal, NL) at Dieren (NL) on 13 July 1990.
More pictures of the highlights in the Netherlands and some in Belgium and Germany in 1990 you will find here or click on the picture.
Dutch highlights in 1989
To celibrate 150 years of Nederlandse Spoorwegen EM2 Locomotive Society 27000 (ex-NS 1502) ran a special passenger train consisting of six plan E coaches, here seen at Ellecom (NL) on 22 July 1989.
More pictures of the highlights in the Netherlands in 1989 you will find here or click on the picture.
Dutch highlights in 1988
NS 2409 and 2411 accelarate out of Zuidbroek (NL) with a container train from Veendam (NL) to Maasvlakte (NL) in the summer of 1989.
More pictures of the highlights in the Netherlands in 1988 you will find here or click on the picture.
In 1984 I started taking pictures of trains in the Netherlands. In more recent years I grew
fond of the bulldog nose GM locomotives for which topic I still travel around the world.
On my pages I will show you some themes with a strong accent on the GM bulldog nose
units.
Below you find two pictures of me in action during setting up the Dutch private railway companies Lovers Rail
(now part of Transdev), ShortLines (now part of CapTrain/Fret SNCF) and
ERS Railways (now part of Genesee & Wyoming Inc.):
And these are the countries which I have visited so far (1 January 2016, 23% of all countries on our planet):
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