Locomotive Henchel BB1200 sits in the yard at Puget-Théniers as a storm brews in the mountains. The locomotive is primarily used to transport ballast cars along the line and sometimes switching d... (more)

The Rotonde ferroviaire de Chambéry, or simply La Rotonde, is a locomotive shed belonging to the Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF) in Chambéry in the French department of S... (more)

Former train station "Gare du Sud" in Nice, now used as media library and restaurant. The station was closed for trains in 1991 already, replaced by a new station some hundred meters awa... (more)

The 296-metre-long Sitter Viaduct in Appenzell was built between 1902 and 1904 for the meter-gauge Appenzeller Strassenbahn (ASt), mainly with tamped concrete arches, but also a 49-metre-long trus... (more)

Disused railroad material is also sometimes reused in Mauritania. Here at Ben Amira station, the building on the right is made from a former MIFERMA freight train carriage. The building on the lef... (more)

In Mauritania, disused railroad equipment, be it vehicles or superstructure material, is usually not scrapped but left standing somewhere. Near Boulenouar, at kilometer 96 of the 652-kilometer-lon... (more)

A train around two kilometers long takes a few minutes to pass by.

The large hall of Zurich's main station from 1871, today a large square, then with 6 head tracks. In 1902, the tracks were shortened for the first time and in 1930 they disappeared completely from... (more)

After several days of traveling through Mauritania, the group from Switzerland met the railroad for the first time at noon that day in Choum. A few minutes later, the empty ore train V5 from Nouad... (more)

In Mauritania, discarded rail vehicles are not scrapped but cannibalized and left somewhere. The remains of these two former diesel vehicles, known as draisines, can be seen in Choum. On the right... (more)

It is easy to imagine that drifting sand plays a major role on a railroad line through the Sahara desert. The track maintenance teams use shovels and manpower or, as here, a bulldozer. They will s... (more)

Modern wheelset lathe in the SNIM workshop in Nouadhibou. Photography was only allowed here, otherwise it was strictly forbidden inside the halls.

There is a large underground water reservoir near Boulenouar at kilometer 96 of the 652-kilometer railroad line from Nouadhibou to Zouérate. This is used to supply the villages and towns along th... (more)

In Mauritania, the disused permanent way material such as steel ties and rails is deposited next to the tracks and remains there. Some of the ties are reused for simple shade, as markings or even ... (more)

This is the last turnout of Boulenouar (PK 96) on the east side. The 652-kilometre-long railroad line through the Mauritanian desert is single-track throughout, with crossing points for the trains... (more)