Locomotives and Trains

Diverse locomotives in various settings, from NASA trains to electric models, highlighting movement and transport functions.

Europe, Russia. The Famous Trans Siberian Railroad from Moscow Thru Siberia

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Florida East Coast Railway train arrives at the Jay Jay Rail Yard with the booster segments for the Ares I-X test rocket for interchange with the NASA Railroad (left). The four reusable motor segments and the nozzle exit cone, manufactured by the Ares I first-stage prime contractor Alliant Techsystems Inc., or ATK, departed Utah March 12 on the seven-day, cross-country trip to Florida. The segments will be delivered to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility for final processing and integration. The booster used for the Ares I-X launch is being modified by adding new forward structures and a fifth segment simulator. The motor is the final hardware needed for the rocket's upcoming test flight this summer. The stacking operations are scheduled to begin in the Vehicle Assembly Building in April.

Locomotive green with yellow stripe

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A NASA railroad train hauling the solid rocket booster, or SRB, segments moves along the track at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SRB segments are under protective covers. The space agency utilizes railroad operations to not only move equipment at Kennedy, but to transport hardware to and from contractor facilities across the nation.

Amtrak Cascades train in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

The Soyuz rocket is ready to be rolled out to the launch pad by train, on Sunday, October 21, 2012, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for October 23 and will send Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of ROSCOSMOS on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station.

Photo of Russian rail road locomotive in Samara

Caboose at a museum, Ritzville, Adams County, Washington State, USA

Historical railway in the Ruhr area Historical Railway in the Ruhr area

Railrolad caboose sits on a siding gathering grafitti near a cemetary.

Europe, Russia. The Famous Trans Siberian Railroad from Moscow Thru Siberia

In Carcross, Yukon Territory, Canada, the White Pass (WP&YR) trains are working trains, pulling freight and cargo cars.

Railway,Tunnel measuring carriage Railway,Tunnel measuring carriage or tunnel hedgehog, had mechanical measuring devices for surveying tunnel systems. Copyright: xZoonar.com/JFsxPicxFactory xThielemannx 10803408

Railcar for maintenance of the railway and security checks. Railcar for maintenance of the railway and security checks Copyright: xZoonar.com/OvchinnikovaxOlgax 9561529

Railroad park, railroad museum in Augsburg

Photo of Russian rail road locomotive in Samara

USA, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Ronks, Red Caboose Motel, accommodation in historic caboose railroad cars

Winnipeg Railway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Boxcars

STS-335 LAUNCH ON NEED - LAST SRB SEGMENTS ARRIVAL - DRAW BRIDGE OVER BANANA RIVER

Locomotive A locomotive moving fast, a blurred background Copyright: xZoonar.com/MariaxKraynovax 22051404

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA Railroad locomotive No. 3 delivers tank cars from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the Florida East Coast Railway interchange in Titusville, Fla. The locomotive is one of three NASA Railroad locomotives built for the Toledo, Peoria and Western, or TP&W, between 1968 and 1970. It is a GM Electromotive Division SW-1500 switcher. The locomotive was acquired by NASA from the TP&W in 1984 and painted in the NASA Railroad paint scheme. The power plant was completely overhauled in 2009. The locomotive will pull the train to the interchange in Titusville, where the trains helium tank cars, a liquid oxygen tank car, and a liquid hydrogen dewar or tank car will be transferred for delivery to the SpaceX engine test complex outside McGregor, Texas.The railroad cars were needed in support of the Space Shuttle Program but currently are not in use by NASA following the completion of the program in 2011. Originally, the tankers belonged to the U.S. Bureau o

Moving train on track covered with snow at dusk

Oldtimer steam locomotive at night with train drivers when removing water from a water tower Oldtimer-steam locomotive at night with train drivers when sampling from a water tower

Romania, Romanian countryside near Sighisoara. Passenger train.

Train engine EMD GP7 at a museum, Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois, USA

Railway wagon side view The side view of a disused railway wagon on a rail.

Wheels Journey into Past luxury tourist train passing Rajasthan India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers release the crane from the transportation cover over the solid rocket booster segment. After a mission, the spent boosters are recovered, cleaned, disassembled, refurbished and reused after each launch. After hydrolasing the interior of each segment, they are placed on flatbed trucks. The individual booster segments are transferred to a railhead located at the railroad yard at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The long train of segments is part of the twin solid rocket boosters used to launch space shuttle Discovery in October. The NASA Railroad locomotive backs up the rail cars and the segment is lowered onto the car. The covered segments are moved to Titusville for interchange with Florida East Coast Railway to begin the trip back to Utah.

Photo of Russian rail road locomotive in Samara

White Pass & Yukon Route train station, Fraser, British Columbia, Canada

Nostalgia trolley

Train, Orient Express, Uzbekistan, train station

Old railroad cars in the historic railroad station in Branson, Missouri

Ex Canadian National EMD GP7 number 4803 restored and Preserved at the Toronto Roundhouse

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Ares I-X forward assembly (comprising the frustum, forward skirt extension and forward skirt) moves alongside the NASA Railroad tracks as it heads for the Vehicle Assembly Building, in the background. In the VAB's High Bay 4, the forward assembly will undergo processing and stacking to the upper stage. Ares I-X is the flight test for the Ares I which will provide NASA an early opportunity to test and prove hardware, facilities and ground operations associated with Ares I, which is part of the Constellation Program to return men to the moon and beyond. Launch of the Ares I-X flight test is targeted for August 2009.

Freight Train near downtown Los Angeles, California, USA

Rear of train passenger car, nobody around

Motion modern railway train. Motion modern railway train and wagons with blue sky, sun and clouds

1970s TRAINS RAILROAD TRACKS BULK CONTAINER CARS

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A NASA Railroad train passes in front of the twin bays of the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The train is on its way to the Florida East Coast Railway interchange in Titusville, Fla., where the trains helium tank cars, a liquid oxygen tank car, and a liquid hydrogen dewar or tank car will be transferred for delivery to the SpaceX engine test complex outside McGregor, Texas.The railroad cars were needed in support of the Space Shuttle Program but currently are not in use by NASA following the completion of the program in 2011. Originally, the tankers belonged to the U.S. Bureau of Mines. At the peak of the shuttle program, there were approximately 30 cars in the fleet. About half the cars were returned to the bureau as launch activity diminished. Five tank cars are being loaned to SpaceX and repurposed to support their engine tests in Texas. Eight cars previously were shipped to California on loan to support the SpaceX

Railcar at the railway station of Haapsalu, Estonia

Close up of an Illinois Central train engine in Arcola, IL.

USA, California, Napa Valley Wine Train in train station.

India, Tamil Nadu, Nilgiri Mountains, UNESCO World Heritage Steam Train, Udagamandalam (AKA Ooty).

State Railways, SJ UA0A2 2303, Exterior

Trans Europ Express. International railways service in Europe. Diesel locomotive of TEE, 1957. Deutches Technikmuseum. Berlin. Germany.

Local Trains, Railroad Systems, Green Noise Barrier, Bremen, Germany 1093404176

A U.S. Army locomotive used as part of rail operations is shown Aug. 11, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. For the many decades of Fort McCoys existence, the capability to transport cargo and equipment to and from the installation by rail has always been there. During World War II, for example, the railroad at Fort McCoy was one of the main forms of transportation for bringing troops in for training and home after the war as well as moving cargo and equipment in and out of the installation. And as rail operations continue in the future at the installation, D.J. Eckland with the Fort McCoy Logistics Readiness Center that manages Fort McCoy rail operations said he welcomes each and every opportunity to demonstrate the capability. He said rail is one of the post's strategic transportation missions, and regular rail movements allow the installation to exercise that capability.

BC Rail locomotive idles in the yard in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

RUSSIA, SIBERIA, CHITA, ELECTRIC TRAIN ENGINE

The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft is rolled out by train to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March, 31, 2010. The launch of the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 23 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of Russia, Flight Engineer Mikhail Kornienko of Russia, and NASA Flight Engineer Tracy Caldwell Dyson is scheduled for Friday, April 2, 2010 at 10:04 a.m. Kazakhstan time.

Photo of the Russian rail road coach

TREN DE VIA ESTRECHA. Location: Estación. VILLASANA DE MENA. BURGOS. SPAIN.

An old green railroad boxcar atop a hill in Cairo, Illinois

Railcar and shuttle , Potential Release Site 441 - Railroad Yard. Environmental Cleanup Operations at the Mound Site in Miamisburg, Ohio

Railroad park, railroad museum in Augsburg,

Train in the countryside

Railroad track repairs have been completed at Kennedy Space Center. This section of track is located on KSC property, just north of the NASA Causeway in the KSC Industrial Area. The repairs were required following the minor derailment of two solid rocket booster segment cars on July 18

Carriages and locomotive of the Chihuahua-Pacifico Railway.

Train at station in Udaipur, India

Railway. The tail of the departing train. Bottom view

Museum Railway Museum Railway Schönberger Strand, Schleswig Holstein 2024

The Soyuz rocket is rolled out by train to the launch pad at Site 31, Tuesday, April 6, 2021, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft on April 9.

Old engine of the former Ghan passenger train operating between Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin, South Australia, Australia, Oceania

Exclusion zone, locomotive on the site of the former Yaniv railway station, now in the uninhabitable 30-kilometre zone around the Chernobyl power plant and the workers' settlement of Pripyat, Ukraine, Europe

A train passing a rail crossing, surrounded by fences and barb wire on a summer evening.

Locomotive the Chernivtsi Railway Station, Chernivtsi, Ukraine

N.A., USA, Washington, Whitman County. Rail cars on tour in the Palouse. (Editorial Usage Only)

"Twenty Twelve", graffiti on a rail car, UP yard, North Little Rock, AR

USA, California, Napa Valley Wine Train in train station.

USA, Pennsylvania, Ronks. Red Caboose Motel, lodging in old train cabooses

CN freight train exits , culvert , Matsqui, British Columbia, Canada

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - - The NASA Railroad (right) is ready for the exchange of the Florida East Coast Railway cars carrying the booster segments for the Ares I-X test rocket. The four reusable motor segments and the nozzle exit cone, manufactured by the Ares I first-stage prime contractor Alliant Techsystems Inc., or ATK, departed Utah March 12 on the seven-day, cross-country trip to Florida. The segments will be delivered to the Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility for final processing and integration. The booster used for the Ares I-X launch is being modified by adding new forward structures and a fifth segment simulator. The motor is the final hardware needed for the rocket's upcoming test flight this summer. The stacking operations are scheduled to begin in the Vehicle Assembly Building in April.

Photo of Russian rail road locomotive in Samara

Diesel-hydraulic locomotive, for routes and shunting with electric power transmission in AC Transmission, manufacturer MAK Kiel and ABB Mannheim, DE 1002 series, built in 1990, Westkai terminal, Cologne Niehl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Three NASA railroad locomotives at Kennedy Space Center in Florida move toward Launch Complex 39 area's Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility, or RPSF. The operation was to allow wheel and axle assemblies to be swapped between two of the locomotives.The RPSF was built to support work on the solid rocket used motors during the space shuttle era. The facility had never previously been used for another purpose, but is now free to serve other customers. With rails running into the building's high bay and a pair of heavy-lift cranes positioned overhead, the facility's capabilities were a perfect fit for the NASA Railroad's needs. Railroad managers wanted to trade the wheel and axle assemblies, or trucks, of locomotives No. 2 and No. 3. Locomotive No. 3 was painstakingly restored in recent years by the NASA Railroad team, and handles much of the rail work required at the center in the post-shuttle era. But the trucks on locomotive No. 2 are in better shape and are mo

German diesel electric locomotive. Model class DE 20500. Deutches Technikmuseum. Berlin. Germay.

Green freight train transports cargo by rail. Green freight train transports cargo by rail.

Mexico, Chihuahua, Copper Canyon. Tourist train (aka Chepe). THIS IMAGE HAS SOME RESTRICTIONS FOR US LAND TOUR OPERATORS. PLEASE CALL FOR INFORMATION

konkan railway maharashtra India Copyright: xDinodiaxPhotox

Transport of liquid gas by rail, Vaihingen, 20.04.2022., Vaihingen, Germany, Europe

Deisel Engine of Red orange train, Diesel locomotive, on Bangkok railway station platform Thailand

Abandoned freight train on railroad track

Cargo train passing field

Wheel on a standing box wagon on a rail, Bremen, Germany, Europe

Borkum, narrow-gauge railway, narrow-gauge, narrow-gauge railways, narrow-gauge iron railway, narrow-gauge iron tracks ** Borkum, Narrow Gauge Railway, Borkums, Narrow Gauge Railways J0W-In

railway station of Dunedin south New Zealand An image of the railway station of Dunedin south New Zealand Copyright: xZoonar.com/magannx 14139533

Fast moving fully loaded huge container, traffic of heavy vehicles on national highway number 17 at Chiplun, Konkan region, District Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xNitinxKelvalkar/DinodiaxPhotox

Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway - Historic Trains in Tulelake. Several green railroad cars with yellow and red trim, possibly a restored caboose and an engine of the Modoc Northern Railroad, stand on tracks beside the highway in the town of Tulelake. Location: Tulelake, California (41.957° N 121.474° W)

Railway engine white pass and Yukon route narrow gauge railroad Skagway Alaska U.S.A. United States of America Copyright: xMadhusudanxTawde/DinodiaxPhotox

Train engine, Flam railway in Flam, Norway, Scandinavia, Europe

USA, Pennsylvania, Ronks. Red Caboose Motel, lodging in old train cabooses

Africa, Angola, Lobito. Men standing beside train.

Rail crossing in the twilight a blurred train at a level crossing with red signal lamp in the evening during a sunset in the twilight.

Engine 7435 emerging, UP trestle bridge, North Little Rock, AR

Buffers of blue railway wagon, rail vehicle, wagons on siding, disused station, abandoned workshop, rail vehicle, station building, train journey, train trip, DB, Deutsche Bundesbahn, Hanau-Grossauheim station, Hanau, Main-Kinzig district, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Old trucks and cars sitting on top of a scrap heap in a junk yard in New Jersey

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