From the skies we can witness when ÖBB's class 1144 is pulling hopper wagons through the Semmering line via the beautiful heights and tunnels.

Set of 1144 and Vectron from OBB are leading mixed cargo train along the Semmeringbanh. Train is approaching Breitenstein station.

Solid snow on the Tauern south ramp is just as rare as ÖBB providing a nice toned loco on their trains nowadays. We've just managed to catch it while mist was thin, although I'll ask next time fo... (more)

Last day for Eurocity Croatia to be powered by a pair of older ladies, as new timetables arrived Slovenske Zeleznice took over the job with leased Siemens Vectron locomotives.

Locomotive 1144 # 280 and another of the same series in multiple control are running down the Semmering north ramp through Wolfsbergkogel station, after leading a heavy freight upwards. In the bac... (more)

A freight train of the ÖBB (Austrian State Raiways) is running up the north ramp of the Semmering pass line, UNESCO World Heritage since 1998, with two locomotives 1144 in front on the Kalte Rinn... (more)

A 1144 locomotive of the ÖBB (austrian state railway) is pulling the Eurocity 158 CROATIA from Zagreb Glavni Kolod. via Maribor-Graz to Wien Hauptbahnhof over the Krauselklause viaduct and throug... (more)

Tank car train crossing the 184 meter long and 46 meter high Kalte Rinne viaduct on the north ramp of the Semmering pass railway line, which is UNESCO World Heritage since 1998. Pulling are 3 loco... (more)

1144 # 252 of the ÖBB (Austrian State Railway) is entering the 201 meter long Kartnerkogel tunnel on the Semmering line.

Three generations on the same train: ÖBB 1144 239 (delivered in 1992), 1116 126 (delivered in 2003) and 1293 007 (delivered in 2018), hauling a container train, almost reached the summit of the N... (more)

A southbound container train hauled by an ÖBB class 1144 and a class 1116 loco climbs the Semmeringbahn mountain line at Küb. The leading loco has a special livery that was part of an ÖBB campa... (more)

A southbound container train hauled by an ÖBB class 1144 and a class 1116 loco almost reached the summit of the Neumarkter Sattel incline out of the valley of the Mur river on Austria's Rudolfsba... (more)

ÖBB 1144.040 is the last unit of its class still bearing the original livery. It is seen here in front of a special transfer of former GySEV coaches from Graz to Wolfurt, where they will be resto... (more)

Electric locomotive 1144 Series #066 is pulling the evening direct train to Mürzzuschlag.