Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 40 years ago today, B74 in Vicrail Tangerine and Silver 'Teacup' livery hauls a VLine passenger train out of Spencer Street station, Melbourne, March 10 1986

B74 is one of 26 B class GM-powered double-ended streamline mainline diesel #locomotives introduced by the Victorian Railways in 1952 and 1953. They were highly successful and were the basis upon which the VR committed to full dieselisation of the entire network and elimination of steam traction.

Found an old Ladybird Book of British Railway Locomotives in a charity shop and nabbed it for a friend’s kid. Scanned in the illustration on the cover so I could also add it to the mailing label, so here, internet, have a pretty thing – as the original scan and a quickly cleaned-up 1-bit version.

#railways #trains #locomotives #BritishRail

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 40 years ago today, 4473 and 42102, the #locomotives from the Sundays-only Canberra Express, run around their train at Canberra station, Kingston, ACT, January 19 1986.

The Canberra Express, in the 1980s, ran on Sundays only from Sydney to Canberra in the morning, then back from Canberra to Sydney in the evening.  It was usually made up of 'daylight' air-conditioned carriages and was hauled by a widely varying selection of mainline diesels

A video of this steam train museum: https://youtu.be/aavikYcEr1Q

De Veluwsche Stoomtrein Maatschappij Beekbergen Netherlands Sep 2025

#museum #photography #YouTube #locomotives #netherlands #railway

"It is not a traditional railway locomotive, but rather a Marshall single-cylinder portable steam engine, a type typically used for running equipment in the sugar industry. This model was built by Marshall Sons & Co. Ltd. between the late 19th and mid-20th centuries."

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/yogyakarta-station-steam-locomotive-monument

#Indonesia #Yogyakarta #History #Locomotives

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 40 years ago today, SRA NSW diesel loco 42106 sits in the station yard at Queanbeyan, NSW, January 11 1986.

The 421 class was a fleet of ten EMD-engined diesel #locomotives built by EMD's Australian licensee, Clyde Engineering, for the NSW railways in 1965. They had a classic GM streamlined cab at one end, and, in a feature unique in Australia for GM streamliners, had a fully functioning driving cab at the no 2 end.

Loco 8300 emerges from the scratchings of a Porth Penrhyn, Bangor graffito.

If you're a train expert, please let me know if you can identify the loco.

#trains #locomotives #rail #heritage #folkart

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 42 years ago today, two 44 class Alco 'World' diesel #locomotives, (4440 and 4484 or 4494) at Canberra station yard, Kingston, ACT, December 10, 1983.

NSW Railways one hundred 44 class locos between 1957 and 1967. Powered by Alco 12-cylinder diesel engines, they were Alco's 'World' model, based on their USA FA series. Similar locomotives were delivered to the South Australian Railways (930 class) and to Pakistan, Argentina, Spain, Greece and elsewhere.