Regional (blue) and longer distance (grey) passenger trains in Malmö, Sweden, a couple summers ago.

Saab SK 37E Viggen, built as a trainer but converted to ECM aggressor, outside museum in northern Sweden. Key spotting detail is the outline on the radome for a window with other material for the jammer's frequencies.

MTAB T44-5 at Torneträsk, northern Sweden, an autumn long ago. Built as a standard T44 in 1970, but as it's used for iron ore car switching it has knuckle centre couplers. My sometimes bad memory says they were also ballasted to larger axle loading, but I can't find that mentioned now, so maybe not.

Photos from a hike in Tyresta, a Swedish national park south of Stockholm.

Two de Havilland Vampires at RIAT 2018.

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1000 mm narrow gauge steam locomotive built in 1956, Wernigerode, Germany.

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Photos from a visit to an air defence museum in Norrtälje, Sweden. 1/3

Lunch.

RIAT 2018.

Photos from a railway journey in Europe a summer some years ago. A visit to Amitram in Lille. 6/_

Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace, Paris.

Spring.

A Saab Safir in Norwegian trainer paint scheme at an airshow in Sweden.

Jädraås-Tallås Järnväg Z4p crossing the bridge over river Jädraån. This was a summer in Sweden with high forest fire risk, so no steam that sunday, instead we got to see locomotives seldom in passenger train operation. Z4p was a common 891 mm gauge locomotive. This one built 1956.

600 mm gauge industrial locomotives at a German peat works.

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My Pelikan M200. The piston squeeks a little, but apart from that it's really good. Very good nib and even holds more ink compared to larger pens than you'd expect.

British Aerospace 146 CC.2, RIAT 2018.

Swedish narrow (891 mm = exactly 3 Swedish foot) steam locomotive at Uppsala Ö, a few summers ago. The train in the background is at another station, Uppsala C. Stations used to be separated by 100+ m.

A Swedish high speed train type X2 en route from Göteborg to Stockholm passes Hallsberg (if I remember right without stopping).

Two Saab J 32 Lansens at an airshow in Sweden.

Is this my favourite watch? It's certainly the one I've got the most straps bought specifically for, so I think it must be.

Passenger train departing Falun, Sweden.

Danish Air Transport MD-87 at an airshow in Denmark.

Saab J 29F Tunnan at an airshow in Sweden.

Bombardier Itino Y31 I photographed in Karlstad, Sweden.

A Volvo LV224 which helpfully tell us it's made in 1954. Note that LV224 isn't a bus model; It's a chassis which the customer could build a truck or bus on.

Bloodhound missile outside museum in Norrtälje, Sweden. (Or maybe it's a missileshaped training object rather than a deactived missile. I forgot to ask.)

Passenger train in Arboga, Sweden. Locomotive is an Rc6 built by ASEA in 1985. 76 ton, 3600 kW, 160 km/h. This was this time of year, but a few years ago, so I'm not sure but I think there was another at the other end to avoid need for run around. I think only EMUs on this route now.

A Swedish diesel hydraulic switcher class Z65 built by Kalmar Verkstad in 1963 photographed in Norrköping. When they were new they had Rolls Royce engines, later they have gotten Scania Vabis, Deutz and/or like this one Cummins. 28 ton, 60 km/h, 280 kW.

Industrial battery electric loco on preserved Swedish narrow gauge railway Jädraås-Tallås Järnväg. This was the summer week with forest fire risk, so no steam locomotives. Built 1917 for a 6 km railway with ~6 km range at 13 km/h. In daily use until 1951 and as backup in 1960s. Now new batteries.

#Ferret photo from long ago.

Bombardier Regina X55 departing Hallsberg, Sweden. This is the "high speed version", but it's more like the "long distance version" because 200 km/h is max allowed in Sweden. 6 h is the longest journey I've made on these.

NSB type 69D, Oslo, when I visited Norway a few years ago.

Swedish narrow gauge steam locomotive "Tallås", built in 1898 and in commercial service until 1969, has just departed station Tallås headed towards Jädraås, on preserved railway Jädraås – Tallås Järnväg, when I was there a rainy summer day.

Passenger and freight trains in Hallsberg, Sweden.

Library in Malmö, Sweden.

Swedish tram built in 1924 photographed at museum tramway in Malmköping, years ago. Used in regular traffic until 1959, for infrastructure maintenance like snow plowing until 1989 when it was backdated to 50s look and then used as veteran vehicle.

Left: View of the Solovetskii Monastery from the Land, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, 1915 (original colour). Right: Same, by me. If I'd known about his photo I'd chosen the same spot to stand.

A motorized draisine of a type which built Kalmar Verkstad built 195 of in 1959–1967. Volvo car engine, empty weight 1500 kg, load 1000 kg. Photographed when I visited the railway museum in Ängelholm, Sweden, a couple years ago.

Some train photos from Karlstad, Sweden, when I was there an autumn years ago.

Diesel hydraulic locomotive built by ASJ in 1954, as one of two for Stockholm-Roslagens Järnvägar. Photographed at Marielund on preserved Swedish railway Upsala–Lenna Jernväg. 891 mm gauge, 22 tons, max 55 km/h, 150kW Scania-Vabis D815 and pneumatically controlled gear box. >>

Passenger trains in Göteborg, Sweden.

Library in Karlstad, Sweden.

Narrow gauge steam locomotive I photographed a rainy day in Germany some years ago.

Swedish narrow gauge Mallet steam locomotive built in 1910 with passenger train in Jädraås – Tallås Järnväg. In regular service on the railway where this was a part until 1959, then backup for the new diesel locomotives five years. Restored and back in service 1996.