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Alstom has received an order for two Coradia Stream hydrogen trains from transport operator Ferrovie del Sud Est (FSE).

A Mastodon thread by @q3k, who, together with @redford and @mrtick have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs

I found this photo digging through my old photography stuff and thought I'd share! Here we see NSSR's 193 in DMIR livery as it returns from its excursion from Two Harbors(?)...

On the 10. august a freight train derailed in the Gotthard Base Tunnel causing both tubes to be closed for traffic. Many freight trains can no longer use the old Gotthard line due to clearance and have to use alternative routes or cannot run at all. This postal train is one of the few freight trains able to use the old Gotthard...

Southern Pacific #4449 at Portland Union Station. The locomotive will depart with an excursion train the following morning....

Spokane, Portland and Seattle #700 on the turntable at Union Pacific’s Brooklyn Yard in Portland. When this photograph was taken in September 2006, both SP&S 700 and SP 4449 were housed in the Brooklyn roundhouse. Neither the roundhouse nor the turntable remain, but 700 and 4449 now reside in the publicly accessible Oregon...

Another locomotive from Portland & Western’s collection of first generation diesels, this SD9 still shows its unmistakable Southern Pacific heritage. Built in April 1955, this loco was celebrating its 51st birthday when this photo was shot in April 2006 at the St. Helens yard.

Just caught two of these weird, supposedly experimental “composite” reefer cars while on a trip with mrs. PrimeMover. I haven’t been able to dig up much info on them yet, heck I didn’t know of their existence before today. But they’re too cool to not share!

At the time of this photo, Union Pacific 3985, a Challenger class 4-6-6-4, was the largest operating steam locomotive in existence. This locomotive was donated by Union Pacific to a museum and has been replaced in excursion service by an even larger 4-8-8-4 Big Boy locomotive....

Willamette & Pacific 2308 assists the Lewis & Clark Explorer after one of the the RDCs suffered a mechanical failure....

PPCX (SP) 6304 in fresh paint and unpowered in a freight train consist. The loco is moving south to head an excursion in Northern California. Later in the decade, 6304 operated for a few years on a short line in Idaho/Eastern Washington....

The 2005 NRHS (National Railway Historical Society) convention was held in Portland, Oregon. The highlight of the convention was a Columbia Gorge excursion double-headed by SP&S 700 and SP 4449. In this photo, the train has just departed Portland Union Station and is passing under the Fremont Bridge....

2003 built GE C44-9W #5199 leads a BNSF employee appreciation special into the Vancouver, Washington Amtrak station....

This locomotive started life in 1953 as an SD7. Was rebuilt as an SD9M and probably acquired its chopped nose during the rebuild....

GE C44-9W #4762 near Stevenson, Washington in October, 2004. This locomotive was built in 1998.

Today's feature is another weird entry in railroad history, the Burlington Northern Boxhopper, or bopper! BN created these prototype cars in order to maximize the use of their rolling stock fleet. Normally, cars are sent out loaded, and returned empty. The aim of these was they could handle boxcar freight one way, and hopper...

The Lewis and Clark Explorer was a tourist train that operated from Portland to Astoria, Oregon as part of the 200th anniversary celebration of the Lewis & Clark Expedition. The railroad parallels Lewis & Clark’s route along the lower Columbia River to their winter camp near Astoria.

What you see here is one of three DD35 sample units that the espee ordered. Espee didn't order any others so I imagine these beasts were a rare sight in espee livery. These B-units (no control cab) came first, and the DD35A's were made later at UP's request. Like the A's none of these B units survived the scrapper's torch

The DDA35 is a cab unit version of the DD35, built exclusively for the Union Pacific railroad. Only fifteen of these beasts were built between May and July of 1965, numbered 70 (pictured) through 84. Powered by twin 567D prime movers, these locomotives were good for 5000 horsepower each. Unfortunately, these locomotives suffered...

One of Portland's two resident northern locomotives, Spokane, Portland & Seattle #700, at the point of the 2004 Santa Train. The train has just crossed the Steel Bridge and is pulling into Portland Union Station.

The only successful application of the iconic Talgo design in North America, there are only two trainsets remaining in Amtrak Cascades service.