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Nevada Northern Railway #93, a 2-8-0 Consolidation built by Alco. Bodie Bailey took this photo in September 2005. Photo by Bodie Bailey.

Walking the tracks in Lusaka, Zambia. Photo by feijeriemersma.

A long exposure at night. Photo by JLudin.

Major wind storms struck Europe today, killing at least 47 people and disrupting transportation networks across the continent. Berlin’s new train station was closed after a two-ton girder fell onto a staircase but has since reopened; trains have been cancelled all over the place. This photo from Wasserauen, Switzerland explains why. Photo by Kecko. Update: […]

Steam engines in a scrapyard in south Wales in 1973. I have a perverse fondness for photos of abandoned, disused or decaying railroad equipment. Photo by loose_grip_99.

What I found interesting about this photo by Allen Rockwell is that each of these three BNSF engines has a slightly different paint scheme — the most recent is at front. Photo by Allen Rockwell.

A starkly beautiful shot from the Chile-Bolivia border. Photo by DanielBosma.

A Cumbres & Toltec narrow-gauge Mikado, presumably awaiting a retrofit, in Chama, New Mexico, in September 2003. Photo by Bodie Bailey.

A 1964 photo of a Garratt engine pulling one leg of the train from Cape Town, South Africa to Bulawayo in what was then Rhodesia. Photo by mgjefferies.

Two crushed engines on flat cars on a setout track — what happened? Photo by priebe86.