#Salzburg 🇦🇹 roundhouse in the early 1980s, if I remember well. An #ÖBB Class 1042.500 electric, still with the pre-1974 winged wheel on the front, seems to enjoy the winter sun.

A rare sight in the 21st century: a steam engine at #Zurich🇨🇭HB. This is 141R 1244, an oil-fired ex-SNCF 🇫🇷 “Mikado” type loco, ready to work an excursion train in September 2017. She was built in Canada 🇨🇦, in 1947, by MLW (Montreal Locomotive Works). www.mikado1244.ch/fahrzeuge/14...

#Advent Herrnhuter Stern 🌟

Push-pull trains were a common sight on the “Rhein-Ruhr” 🇩🇪 S-Bahn network for many years. The driving trailer (cab-car) on my photo from the early 2000s still displays the orange “Produktfarben” livery introduced in the late 1980s.

Picture of an #ÖBB 🇦🇹 Class 1016 #Taurus, still sporting the #Pflatsch logo when I took this photo, one evening in July 2002. This is a regional service originating at #Villach and heading south, to either #Arnoldstein and #Tarvisio 🇮🇹 or #Rosenbach and possibly #Jesenice 🇸🇮.

Like the previous years, the Christmas tree for the European parliament arrived by NightJet in Brussels today

#Koblenz 🇩🇪 Hbf. in November 2005: a #DB Class 181.2 dual voltage loco, able to operate under 15 kV and 25kV AC overhead wires, has just been coupled onto an #InterCity for #Luxembourg 🇱🇺. The line follows the #Mosel valley, making this a very scenic ride.

A Class 652 electric, displaying the #FS 🇮🇹 “logo inclinato”, at #Brennero/#Brenner border station in spring 2001. The diesel shunter visible in the distance has just pushed her from under the “Austrian” 15kV AC catenary to the “Italian” 3kV DC section and the engine driver has raised the pantograph.

Putenfleisch, gegendert: das hatte ich, ehrlich gesagt, nicht auf meiner Bingo Karte für 2025. Der Truthahn hat übrigens hervorragend geschmeckt. Beziehungsweise, die Truthenne, in diesem Fall. (Ironiemodus wieder aus, also falls jemand … .)

L'amitié franco-allemande, die deutsch-französische Freundschaft, the railway version: two #Alstom #Coradia railcars, one in #DB 🇩🇪 colours, the other one displaying the #SNCF 🇫🇷 #TER livery, are seen here, coupled together and displaying the European flag 🇪🇺, at #Saarbrücken Hbf in the early 2000s.

One evening at #Brno 🇨🇿 hlavní nádraží in May 2012: a #ČD České dráhy Class 362 dual voltage electric and a Class 854 diesel railcar (visible on the left) are awaiting further duties, right as the sun sets.

These things that stay in a box for decades. Useless, but of a certain emotional value. Like this #Munich 🇩🇪 to #Salzburg 🇦🇹 ticket and the timetable leaflet, from March 1980: D265 #Mozart. My first ever ride on an #SNCF 🇫🇷 #Corail car, which I found comfortable, classy and stylish. (And I still do.)

#Zurich🇨🇭Altstetten one day at dawn, in February 2006: this is the short “Chur portion” of a multi-destination #DB 🇩🇪 #UrlaubsExpress night train, shuttling holidaymakers from northern Germany to various Swiss ski resorts. I was the only one getting off at this suburban station early in the morning.

A picture taken in autumn 2004 at #Ancona station: this is a northbound #FS 🇮🇹 #Trenitalia #InterCity in #XMPR livery, travelling along the #Adriatica line. The consist, hauled by an E.444R electric, includes #GranConfort type cars - the ones positioned right behind the loco.

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Today, we remember #Holodomor. The famine orchestrated by the Stalinist regime killed millions of Ukrainians. Hunger must never be a weapon! At the recent #FoodFromUkraine Summit 🇦🇹 reaffirmed its commitment to global food security.

I served as our Ambassador in Ukraine for 3 years under Putin’s missiles and drones but resigned when Trump kept appeasing Putin. America does not bow to dictators. It’s not who we are. Here's why this Trump-Putin so-called "peace plan" is a disaster:

This is so depressing. Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

A picture taken at dusk, one evening in August 2006: #CityNightLine #CNL service “Aurora” from Basel🇨🇭to Copenhagen 🇩🇰 makes a stop at #Mannheim 🇩🇪. A #DB Class 101 electric is hauling the train. The first car right behind the loco is a double-decker sleeper. I remember, there was also a #DiningCar.

The #nightjet logo, seen last night at #Basel🇨🇭SBB. This is a seat car with compartments on the #Zürich to #Berlin 🇩🇪 service. Its home base is #Graz 🇦🇹 which will be reached three days later: this consist performs the Zurich to Berlin vv. and the Zurich to Graz vv. #nightjet runs.

At #Milano 🇮🇹 C: a stele, as a reminder of a once existing underground platform, from where Jews were transported to Concentration Camps. There’s a video message by Liliana Segre, Italian senator for life and Holocaust survivor, deported from #binario21 at the age of 13. www.memorialeshoah.it?lang=en

With an #FS 🇮🇹 #Trenitalia regional service from #Domodossola to #Novara earlier today, along the secondary line via Gravellona Toce and Borgomanero.

Good Morning from the #SBB🇨🇭#elvetino #DiningCar on this #InterCity from #Basel to #Brig via #Bern, #Spiez and the #Lötschberg base tunnel. #Breakfast as we catch a glimpse of Lake Thunersee. @diningcar.at

A picture from the early 2000s, taken from the window of a #Munich 🇩🇪 bound train: as we pass #Prien am Chiemsee, we come across an eastbound #InterCity hauled by a #DB Class 120, displaying its orient-red livery with “Latz” front. The first car is a driving trailer (cab car), seemingly dead-heading.

When in #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 earlier this month, I took a suburban train to #Helsingør, right by the sea and just opposite #Helsingborg 🇸🇪. A busy railway and ferry hub, it is home to #Kronborg Castle, the setting of #Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The town is also known as #Elsinore in #Shakespeare's play.

A cloudy, or rather foggy, morning at #Udine 🇮🇹 in December 2000, almost 25 years ago: an #FS Class E.444R “Tartaruga” (🐢) electric will soon depart with a southbound #Trenitalia #InterCity in tow.

the fog is rolling in. #November #evening #Switzerland🇨🇭#Jura #Basel area

#Rosenheim 🇩🇪 last week: the #ÖBB #NightJet from #Brussels 🇧🇪 and #Paris 🇫🇷 to #Vienna 🇦🇹, hauled by a Class 193 Siemens #Vectron electric, makes a station stop here. In four weeks’ time this will be history: the Paris portion will no longer run, and the #SNCF stickers on the cars will become redundant.

A photo taken in April or May 2001 at #Bozen #Bolzano 🇮🇹 station: an #FS E.656 “Caimano” electric with a consist of “Gran Confort” carriages, some (like the first one behind the loco) in #XMPR livery and others still displaying their original #Bandiera paint scheme.

9/11 or the Paris terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015: one will always remember where one was when the terrible news popped up. We were in Venice ten years ago. The following day, we visited the French Pavilion at the Biennale d’Arte, adorned with messages of sympathy and grief. 🖤

A #Lötschberg🇨🇭#EuroCity bound for Germany 🇩🇪 seen at #Spiez in the early 2000s: a #BLS #Re465 hauls a long consist of DB cars. The #verkehrsrot paint scheme has been applied on the first one, whereas others display the orient-red #Produktfarben livery. A #WRmz137 type #DiningCar is positioned fourth.

#Brussels 🇧🇪 in March 2002: an #SNCB #NMBS Class 20 electric is seen here with a #EuroCity consist. This used to be the usual setup for loco-hauled trains on the line to #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 for many years: the six-axle Class 20 was able to develop the power necessary on the gradients of the #Ardennes line.

🚂 The people spoke — and won! Thanks to #ELLET, and the assembly of the Technical Chamber of #Greece, the plan now includes a study to reopen the #Peloponneserailway, not just a bike path. ✌️ A first victory for the #train’s return! balkaninsight.com/2025/11/06/g...

#Nice 🇫🇷 station: an #SNCF #BB22200 electric with a night train from #Italy 🇮🇹. The #FS sleeper is positioned right behind the loco. Photo taken exactly 25 years ago. I very well remember the date: I had just learned about the terrible Kaprun funicular disaster, watching TV in my hotel room in Nice.

An engineer wanted to make a quiet high-speed train. “The question then occurred to me — is there some living thing that manages sudden changes in air resistance as a part of daily life?” The answer: the kingfisher. See my story today for more tales of bioinspiration. Gift link: nyti.ms/4otNQyl

Pictures taken a week ago while at, and around, #Copenhagen 🇩🇰: #DSB #IC4 diesel units to, and from, #Kalundborg, as well as Class EB #Siemens #Vectron electrics on double-deck commuter services, and on #Hamburg 🇩🇪 #EuroCity trains, were among the vehicles seen.

Remembering the darkest of all nights. #9November1938 #NovemberPogroms #NeverForget #NeverAgain Never again is now. Right. Now.

9-10 November 1938 | The November Pogrom – a pogrom against the Jews throughout Nazi Germany. Hundreds were killed (or died by suicide), 30,000 men arrested and incarcerated in concentration camps, over 1,000 synagogues burnt, over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged.

Earlier this week at #Villach 🇦🇹: an #ÖBB Class 4746 #Siemens #DesiroML suburban unit in #InterRegio configuration, for future medium distance services, with a #SnackZone space and some seats labelled first class, yet being identical to 2nd class seats, leaving aside the seat covers.

#November #Basel🇨🇭#Jura as the fog dissipates.

#Villach 🇦🇹 Warmbad station earlier today: an #ÖBB #Siemens 230 kph Class 1216 electric, certified also for running in #Italy 🇮🇹 and #Slovenia 🇸🇮, is seen here on an S4 suburban service from #Hermagor. The 8,600 HP developed by this loco are more than enough to haul the modest three car consist.

Going through the pictures taken today while on a hike along the #Rilke trail, starting at #Duino 🇮🇹 castle. Wonderful views on the Bay of #Trieste as the path follows the #Karst ridge.

A late morning visit of the lovely #Monfalcone 🇮🇹 train station, very charming, even a bit sleepy, off peak today. Things seen: a #Mercitalia class E.412 - a former “Brenner Lok”, the #Trenitalia #ICN774 from #Rome on its way to #Trieste, and some vintage #FS “logo inclinato” signage from the 1980s.

A few impressions from last night’s #ÖBB 🇦🇹 #DaNi #nightjet trip from #Hamburg 🇩🇪. Arrival into #Munich after breakfast, which was served in the cabin by the sleeper car attendant. (I travelled in sleeper economy.) There’s also a portion from #Amsterdam. This explains the #Vectron in #NS 🇳🇱 livery.

The European Convention on Human Rights turns 75 today! Respect for human rights is one of the founding values of the European Union and a fundamental aspect of its external relations. Find out how the EU protects and promotes human rights worldwide ➡️ link.europa.eu/yYBWXB

4 November marks Ukrainian Railway Workers' Day.  Despite russian shelling and, they remain an unbreakable force, enabling lines of communication and risking their lives to deliver aid, evacuate people, and keep Ukrainians connected with each other and the rest of the world🧵

Hamburg 🇩🇪 Hauptbahnhof. A last look at the #DSB #Talgo from #Copenhagen 🇩🇰, before heading for dinner (and a local beer) up to the #Wandelhalle. Last step for today: boarding the #ÖBB 🇦🇹 #nightjet.

Hello from the first ever #Copenhagen 🇩🇰 to #Hamburg 🇩🇪 #DSB #EuroCity #Talgo service 🥳🎉. The trainset is brand new, rather stylish and there’s, almost, level boarding throughout. No #DiningCar though, but I spotted a ☕️ vending machine. And I’m in seat 61 😉. @seatsixtyone.bsky.social @talgo.com

It seems that today marks the end of #DB 🇩🇪 #InterCity #Kurswagen through cars to #Dagebüll Mole. They did split from #Marschbahn services to #Westerland #Sylt at #Niebüll. I digged out this picture taken in June 2007. Back then, an Austrian-built #Jenbach diesel railcar worked the train.

#Salerno 🇮🇹 in April 2012: an #FS #Trenitalia 200 kph Class E444R #Tartaruga (🐢) electric is hauling an #InterCity train, displaying the XMPR livery, reflecting the carrier’s visual corporate identity back then.