All steamed up

Go on then, I'll bite -

I love this old (1940s?) Union Pacific behemoth, "Big Boy". 6,200 horsepower. Not sure it would pass environmental muster these days though

No idea what this is (it's in Connecticut somewhere) but it sure is purdy.

Gresley's masterpiece LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard, and surely the sexiest (and of course still the fastest) steam loco ever?

I've always wanted to travel across Canada in this. Anyone ever done it?

Kevin, 

The bottom image is a stinking photo    WOW

Do you mean striking?

Great to see the early streamlining of the engines, really alluring

Actually meant "stonking", as in FAB

Hate that iPad autotext

Something a bit more modern. Double headed Class 37 intermodal working at Acton Bridge, Cheshire in July 2010.

56091 by the washer plant at Knottingley depot in West Yorkshire around 1992.

Casey jones train

Richard,

    The angle of your photos suggest you might be a linesman, or a trespasser ?

City of Peterborough

Absolutely NOT the case.

Image 1 I took from the end of a platform with a telephoto lens. The second picture is a scan of an image I bought recently and was taken during a depot visit.

Coincidentally I watched a notorious film on the dangers of trespassing on the railway this afternoon. Called "The Finishing Line" it was made in 1977 and shows the consequences all too graphically of playing lineside.

I'm no Railway enthusiast but I've alwys loved the look of these engines. Nice picture Richard.

Bittern on a visit to the NVR

The Oliver Cromwell on the NNR Poppy Line.

Another one from Acton Bridge.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVTNpMx1F1E

A  Great Western small loco in Poland at the Steam Parade, Part One.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFil5RUa5f0

Part Two.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xokdgs0Eco

Part Three.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89-quGZubB0

Part Four.

ATB from George

GB Railfreight Class 66 carrying imported coal from Tyne Dock to Drax power station, seen at Milford Jct, October 2010.

Its murder around here

Another scan of a bought in image. This was taken at the Crewe Works Open Day in July 1979 that I attended, although without a camera. The Class 47 is seen in the Diesel Test area where my late father worked for 20+ years. 

Railways are in my blood and the older I get the more they continue to fascinate me.

And some Polish stream locos working in their home environment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...&feature=related

Ths is a very beautiful film ...

ATB from George

In 2001, Mrs. Hook and I took the Blue Train from Pretoria to Cape Town.  It was a wonderful experience...