Trains, Trams, Funiculars and associated stations, yards etc

I have always like trains (and trams sort of come along naturally).  I have a nice HO scale Märklin layout which can run up to 6 (mainly Swiss and German) model trains separately but I also have an interest in (2-rail) models of China Rail.  So stamps and postcards of trains are a logical link.

Here on this page you will find all things associated with trains - railway stations, railway yards, artwork of trains, railway bridges, signals, tracks, etc

Please click "Trains & Trams" from the column on the left.
Steam locomotives
(1)   阿里山森林鐵路 The Alishan Forest Railway
(2)  DRG 97 503 Rack and Adhesion Steam Locomotive
(3)  Steam locomotive 99-7246-4 of the HarzNarrow Gauge Railways  (Harzer Schmalspurbahnen)or HSB
(4) Early locomotives in Germany

Electrics and Diesels (lumped together because sometimes I can't differentiate them)
(1)  The railways of Belarus
(2)  Enogen and Mount Fuji, Japan
(3)  VT20 at Zwiesel, Bavaria, Germany
(4)  Four diesels (1956) at Cincinnati Union Terminal, Ohio, USA
(5) The Ghan - Darwin to Adelaide, Australia
(6) A Dutch DD-VIRM train
(7) Koploper (4011) in KLM livery
(8) The Blue Train of South Africa
(9) SNCF Class CC 7100

(10) The Bernina Express (11) The Algoma Central Railway, Canada (12) The Southerner 1970-2002 a NZ long distance train service (13) Dutch EMU - Plan T Metros (1) Leningrad Metro

Cog railways, Funiculars & Rack and Pinion railways
(1)   Mount Washington & its Cog Railway
(2)   阿里山森林鐵路 The Alishan Forest Railway
(3) Elevador da Bica, a funicular train in Lisbon, Portugal

 

Railway stations & yards 

(1)   Lake Clear Junction Station c. 1920s, New York State
(2)   Fan-shaped Railway Garage, Changhua City, Taiwan
(3)   Riga Central Station, Latvia
(4)   Four diesels (1956) at Cincinnati Union Terminal, Ohio, USA
(5)   Berlin Warschauer Straße station, Germany
(6)   Minsk Central Station, Belarus
(6a) Vilenski railway station, Minsk, Belarus circa 1913
(7)   Union Station (Santa Fe Depot) San Diego
 

 Railway art & posters
(1)  The William Halsey Locomotive Drawing Collection
(2)  Oil painting by Jerzy Nowosielski - Railways 1971
(3)   Aysgarth Falls in Yorkshire Dales - a railway poster reproduction

 Railway bridges
(1)   Müngsten Bridge the highest steel bridge in Germany

Trams
(1)   The trams of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
(2)   The trams of Montpellier, France
(3)   Trams of Helsinki, Finland