C&O 4-8-4 Greenbrier 614T with fifty loaded coal hoppers on a run from Huntington, to Hinton WV. It was on steam powered testing for one month in January 1985. 614T has stopped at Charleston, West... (more)

C&O 614T, 4-8-4 Greenbrier, running test for the ACE program, hauling coal on the C&O between Huntington, and Hinton WV at Cabin Creek, West Virginia. January 10, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff photo ©

Brand new articulated, partly lowfloor, cogwheel train Bhe 4/6 # 43 of the Rigi Bahnen on a test run from Rigi Staffel to Vitznau. The Rigi Bahnen ordered 6 of this new vehicles with 150 seats eac... (more)

2nd day of testing for WM 1309 heading west in the Narrows

The new Mauritius Metro Express LTD kicked off in 2019, after the abandoning of the Railways in 1964. LRV 105 is seen passing Barkly on a Test run up to Rose Hill.

Test Charge: A Siemens SC-44 Charger locomotive runs through Camp Pendleton on a test run for North County Transit District Coaster service. This was the first day of testing for these loco... (more)

The #900 undergoing numerous tests at the FRA Transportation Test Center. The FRA published a rather extensive report detailing the results of these tests which can be found Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: ASEA AEM-7
Location: Pueblo, Colorado, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 900
Train ID: Test
Photo Date: May 07, 1981

New locomotive on test train at the 1906 Philadelphia & Reading passenger station.

New locomotive being tested.

BNSF 9131, 933501 & 9130 (Refrigerated Liquid Methane) RLM Test Set ready to make their runs between Barstow, CA & Belen, NM. BNSF 933501 is actually ex BNGT 101 used to test RLM converted BN SD40... (more)

a brandnew tilting trainset for the Swiss SBB is dragged by a E120 over the Highway 8. Probably it is going to the Siemens test Center in Wildenrath.

ACS-64 604 makes a test run from BOS-WAS and is seen at BWI in the rain. Those LED headlights sure stand out.

18-311 is seen here unravelling from the top loop of Boughton, with a special refrigerated container test train. Exactly what was being tested is still unknown. This section of the line (Cedara ... (more)

EMD G22U 4365 and new locomotive UMM21C 2620.

Anatomy of a prototype kitbash - Juniata rebuild prototype 4200, sans-NJT silver scheme, tests on Cresson Mountain with ex-Altoona Time Trials helper CR 6373.