A Penn Central Alco… sign me up!
I HAVE A dislike of Atlas’ Trainman philosophy that borders on the pathological, but when the New Jersey-based firm recently chucked out its Alco RS32/36 in Penn Central colours, I had to get one.
Hiroshima trams, old and new.
I DON’T NORMALLY shoot trams, but with the weather so nice it seemed rude not to! Bound for Hiroshima station, street car No. 1911 zips past the photographer at Enkobashicho on a blindingly hot May 10th, 2001.
All the colours of the rainbow on a pair of cheery EMDs.
POSSIBLY THE MOST colourful locomotive I’ve ever come across, Florida Tri-Rail GP49PH-3 No. TRCX 812 has swapped its somber Norfolk Southern black for a new life as commuter rail traction. Fitted with a new Detroit Diesel head-end power unit, the former GP49 class unit SOU 4600 is pictured here at Knoche Yard, Missouri, on May 25th, 2006, fresh out of the the Mid-West Locomotive facility in Kansas City.
A few close-ups of HST power cars.
VIRGIN WAS ONE of the big winners in early privatisation, picking up two major InterCity franchises, West Coast and Cross Country. In the end, they never quite managed to passenger revolution that they promised, but they did have a nice livery. Wearing the familiar red and dark grey, No. 43098 Railway Children is seen on the rear of a XC service at Reading General on March 7th, 2002.
A couple of pictures from 2006.
ALTHOUGH BUILT AS a two-car unit, Bombardier ‘Turbostar’ DMU No. 170271 had a ‘One’ Railway ‘refresher’ liveried centre car in its formation, sandwiched by the normal ex-Anglia Railways driving cars, when it was photographed late at night at Norwich Thorpe station, Norfolk, on November 6th, 2006. The Class 170/2 was getting ready to work a service to Cambridge.