Site admins:
Friends of the
Alpine Railways
c/o
Ilkka Siissalo
Nummenraitti 40
FI-04370 Rusutjärvi
Finland
ilkka.siissalo (ät) iki.fi
This is the newest train type of the Rhätische Bahn RhB, the world's largest narrow gauge
network located in the kanton of Graubünden in Switzerland. These trains were used to construct
the world record train, which was over 1,9 km long and consisted exclucively of these new electric multiple units. The railway of RhB is metre gauge.
Picture from Chur 14.5.2023 by Ilkka Siissalo.
What is this site?
This FUNET railway pictures archive is one of the oldest online sources of train and tram related photos. Its story
began roughly at the same time as that of the world wide web. In the meantime, several other good quality train picture sites
have emerged, and for about a decade nothing happened here. Since 2016 we revitalised the site and it is now one of the busiest
train picture sites online. The site got a new name, railpics.club, but
the old and existing long URL address http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/pics/railways
works nevertheless as well and leads you here.
This site is now maintained by members of a Finnish railways enthusiasts
club, Alppirautatieharrastajat ry, or Friends of the Alpine Railways. We want to
express our gratitude to the Finnish academic network FUNET and FUNET's parent organisation
CSC, for kindly providing us with the necessary server space.
What is the difference between this site and most of the other railways pictures sites?
Remember, when you see a picture on these web pages, you can always get the largest resolution image that we have if you just click on the pic.
Firstly, the pictures are published "as is",
that is, we have not done much photoshopping. Probably you can improve many of the photos if you have time and good photoshop skills.
Feel free to do so. New pictures are also provided in a large format, "full size", whereas most other
online sites limit the resolution of pictures to a very small size to conserve disk space. All the material you can find here,
you are welcome to use in any way you like, (with the exception of company copyrighted pictures specifically marked), but obviously
it would be nice if you would mention the original photographer's name if you republish the material.
And if you print any of these pictures for example in a magazine, the photographers/editors would be delighted if you could post them a
paper copy or pdf copy of your publication where the picture appeared. For this purpose you'll find the address and contact details
of the chief admin at the top left of this front page.
Picture categories
Please note that in all categories you can always get the full size picture by clicking on the thumbnail pictures !!
- Algeria
- Armenia
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Canada
- China, People's Republic of
- Croatia
- Czech
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Georgia
- Germany
- Greece
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- (North) Macedonia
- Moldova
- Montenegro
- Mongolia
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Namibia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- North Korea
- Norway
- Panama Canal railway
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Serbia
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority TAZARA
- Thailand
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Uzbekistan
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
What is new? The latest additions
This is the last picture added to the site
One of the Flexity Outlook trams of Metro do Porto is seen here stopping at the local airport Aeroporto do Porto.
Picture 23.10.2011 by Ilkka Siissalo.
1950s and 2017 trains meeting. The new one is a Swiss made Stadler FLIRT and the old one is a 1950s class Dm7 railbus. Both have in turn been running the route Helsinki - Kerava. Picture from Kerava station in Finland 22.7.2017 by Otto Eemil Juntunen.