Steam Locomotive Information

Weirdly enough, if you searched for locomotives in the UK, you also got locomotives in the Ukraine and vice versa. For some reason, those many years ago, I apparently thought it was a good idea to do a partial match on country name when searching. It wasn't. I fixed it. Sorry 'bout that.

Previously we had listed all locomotives in Germany which were in Brandenburg, or in Berlin as being in Berlin / Brandenburg. Steve Frost, our European editor pointed out the error of my ways. So, two modules were reprogrammed to treat the two areas separately, a City of Berlin flag was added so tha...

Have tidied up the records for Chile and Uruguay in South America. If you browse to those two countries you should see substantial improvements.

This morning, while working with Google Earth Pro, I found the location of Humberstone 0-6-2T No. 11 in Humberstone, Chile and set about adding a map and satellite view for the locomotive. While using Google Street View to look around the area at ground level, I discovered a second locomotive, which...

Since I've already received several emails about the mysterious red + plus.jpg which appears on the locomotive display page, fear not. It will shortly be attached to a menu which will allow you to do several things: First, you'll be able to submit a photo for a locomotive, even if it already has one...

nyone who finds irony a welcome seasoning in their daily life may enjoy the story of a Memorial to the Heroes of Kruty http://wp.me/p1xNiX-8q It includes a rather attractive Soviet 0-10-0 (Er799-13)

A number of site visitors have complained that it is difficult, if not impossible to know how recent the information being presented about a locomotive actually is. And after some thought, I completely agree with them, and have modified the site to gather and display information appropriate to this ...

Corrections: For reasons unknown, we had the city of Haapamäki located both in Finland and in Estonia. Finland is correct and the database has been corrected for the 71 locomotives kept there. The city of Krasnovka in Russia is located in the Kaliningrad Region. We had it in Kaliningrad, Rostov and ...

My apologies to our visitors who've attempted (and failed) to contribute links to websites related to locomotives in our database. A typographical error in the program code I made several weeks ago caused a 500 error whenever you tried to submit a link. The problem has been fixed.

Over the last week, I've added a bit more than 200 additional maps to the website.