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.
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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.
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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.
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A pair of head-on views from Hamburg-Harburg.
THERE IS A pleasing symetrical quality about the number of Deutsche Bahn 101 Class No. 101 101-4, if you exclude that pesky check digit. Pictured at Hamburg-Harburg Hbf, Germany, on April 24th, 2008, the promotional liveried electric (A Roco sponsored “train to train connecting Europe” scheme bearing the message Welcome in many different of languages) prepares to depart with a southbound IC service.
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A pair of DRS Class 20/3s.
STILL GOING STRONG after 38 years of service (41 now in 2008), all the underframe detail of Direct Rail Services Class 20/3 No. 20313 is picked out by the late evening light as it sits at in the low level sidings at Norwich, Norfolk, on September 25th, 2005. This locomotive was one of the second batch of English Electric Type 1s to be rebuilt for DRS (at RFS Doncaster), previously being numbered 20194 (built by EE at Vulcan Foundry, Newton-le-Willows, in 1967 as D8194).
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