East Berlin, Sept.1992, Deutsches Reichsbahn Diesel Locomotive, Class 234, awaiting clear signal to proceed into Zoo Station. Built by Voroschilovgrad after 1992, the Class 232 has a C-C wheel arrangement, 3000 HP, and rated speed is 140 km/hr [85 mph]. It is more than likely a diesel- hydraulic propulsion system which is very popular in Europe.

Photo by Donald F Baldwin Copyright 1992.

Kitzbuhel, Austria. March 1990, a Class 1020 electric [freight] locomotive sitting at the Kitzbuhel Hauptbahnhof. This locomotive is also used in passenger service, particularly over Brenner Pass [Austrian / Italian border]

This design is based on the E94 series locomotive of the German Federal Railways. It has a Co-Co wheel arrangement, [US = 2-C +C-2], 4350 HP, and a 90 km/hr maximum speed [54 mph] It weighs 118 metric tonnes, and is roughly 50 ft. long. The first of these 1020s were built around 1952. The 1020 series runs off of a 15,000 volt, 16 2/3 Hz. AC catenary system.

Photo by Donald F Baldwin Copyright 1990.

A Pennsylvania RR Class I1S 2-10-0 built by Baldwin Locomotive Works.

• 62 inch drivers Wt: 386,100 lbs
• Type E superheaters, feedwater heaters, stokers, and power reverse gear.
• Locomotive designed by PRR, Altoona Works, plans supplied to BLW who built them under contract.
• 475 locomotives built between 1922-1923

ASEA has leased to Amtrak a modified Rc4 locomotive for testing in the United States. Amtrak later had these new locomotives built for US service and called them AEM-7.

Reprinted with permission, ASEA Journal, Vol 50, Number 2, 1977

ASEA has been supplying traction motors for main-line locomotives for over 60 years, including Amtrak's latest series of locomotives, the AEM-7.

Reprinted with permission, ASEA Journal, Vol 53, Number 6, 1980.

A restored LNER 4-6-0 steam locomotive.  According to the crew on the line this was a 20+ year restoration project!  This photo was taken at the Leicester, Leicestershire, England terminus of the Great Central Railway (headquartered in Loughborough) in October, 1997.

One of the last photos of Greenville & Northern's #704 in Travelers Rest, SC in Fall of 1998.   J.T.'s wife actually took this photograph on her way to work one morning.  The G&N crew weren't quite sure what she was up to....

A Climax narrow-gauge logginf locomotive that was being repainted at Pisgah National Forest in September 1998.

A restored American Log Loader on display at Pisgah National Forest in September 1998.

Idaho, Northern & Pacific #4507

A diesel locomotive from the Idaho, Northern & Pacific stopped at the scene of a grade crossing accident in September 1999.

The prototype for the Bachmann Spectrum locomotive.  This locomotive was parked under a shed in Asheville, NC at the time this photograph was taken in September 1998.

This is a restored British Railways 4-6-0 paused at some working vintage railway signals at the Loughborough, Leicestershire, England terminus of the Great Central Railway in October, 1997.

Bonjour from the outskirts of Paris, France! Here are two views of the railway station in Suresnes in June, 2000. The original brick station is well-preserved, but no longer in use as a station. The street-side profile of the station sports the sign "Chemin de Fer", meaning "Way(or road) of iron".