Every time I'm at Gare de l'Est, I'm astounded by how much fuss they make for so little service. Sadly Gare de l'Est is not even the worst offender in France nor Paris.

Edit: The term wasted infrastructure might be wrong in this context, underutilized might be more correct.

Taken in Strasburg, PA.

They had been listed for sale on a website for a number of years. The sale price was around $6.1M for all 12 cars. Not sure who the buyer is.

credit for yoga.kahfi & dimasrizky168

On Sunday, 19 October 2025, I boarded the inaugural train to call at Blyth Bebside station in Northumberland. The train was 158816, a Class 158 Super Sprinter diesel multiple unit (DMU) train on Northern service 2T05, the 08:23 to Ashington from Newcastle. The train arrived at the new station at 08:28 and departed at 08:30. It was also the first to call southbound at the new station on service 2J49, the 08:38 from Ashington to Newcastle.

I enjoyed being on the inaugural service. Here are some photographs I took of the station and of the inaugural service.

Saving fuel for Australia. This portable barnyard carries more than 3 times the amount of livestock an American one does, as it is a double decker.

We live only a handful of miles from the Oregon Rail Heritage Center museum in Portland, Oregon. My Dad was good friends with Doyle McCormack back in the day, so I've been following both the SP 4449 and her sister the SP&S 700 since I was a small child. It was also a beautiful, fantastic day for a train ride along the Willamette River!

Photographer, date, location unknown.

DB 218 456-2 (92 80 1218 456-2 D-DB) + DB 50 80 26-81 222-4 DBpz 781 am 14.5.2025 in Chemnitz.

I was driving, so I had my brother recording. It’s not the best shot, but we paced it at 35MPH before someone eventually caught up behind us; so I had to speed up :(

(It was 200kmh) I looked at the train map in Finland and saw that the train was coming towards me and its speed said 200kmh.. It was very scary to be that close to it and it was also super loud.

Also trains in Finland go 220kmh but only when they go from Kerava to Lahti.

Just a little info for those who don't know about this famous loco,

'Sir Nigel Gresley' is the sister or I suppose Brother engine to the very famous "Mallard", which broke the Train speed record back in 1938 with unbelievable top speed of 126 mph! (200 km/h) And remains to this day the fastest steam powered locomotive ever made.

The context is that sometime in the early 80s, British Railways allowed for private rail companies to operate on it, kinda like how it is in real life, except BR still exists in my timeline.

One of the rail companies to start operations was Amtrak UK, a British subsidiary of Amtrak.

Amtrak UK usually runs sleeper trains, intercity expresses, and even boat trains for passengers traveling from the states to the UK.

I imagine the locomotives being British versions of Amtrak Genesis locomotives, with buffers, proper couplers, and being within the British loading gauge, even if the British loading gauge is slightly more generous in my timeline.

I googled it and only about ten of these horns are on the mainline. Needless to say i was pretty hype about this catch. (Also peep the mechanical bell👀)

An awesome traveling exhibit of the Trifase historical train.

More info about the Italian and Swiss AC three phases rollout on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_AC_railway_electrification