Loose_Grip/Pete's photos with the keyword: Pacific

We left Mexico City by coach and after an overnight in Taxco we reached the Pacific coast at Acapulco where we spent the rest of the week. This was the view from our hotel window on the beach.

So when are we going then? The crew of Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR) Class 03 Pacific 1010 await the off at Trier during the Rheinland-Pfalz Dampf Spektakel.

Stoom Stichting Nederland's DB 01 Pacific 1075 takes the curves in the Saar valley south of Trier with the 10.08 train during the Rhineland-Palatinate Dampf Spektakel.

Dwarfed by the Rocky Mountains a Canadian Pacific freight train heading by 4 unidentified locos - probably EMD SD40s - passes Kananaskis heading east towards Calgary. I was attending a Mobil Oil Tectonic Geology course through the mountains and should have been listening to the description of the rock outcrops here but the chance of a photo of a train in this fabulous landscape was too much of a diversion. Mount Yamnuska, right, & Old Goat Peak, centre, are part of the Rocky Mountain Front Range and the abrupt change between the steeply dipping, folded & thrusted rocks in the west and the flat lying Interior Plains rocks to the east is dramatic. Here Middle Cambrian carbonates have overridden Cretaceous Belly River Formation along the McConnell thrust fault. (I may not have been listening but I still have the field notes!)

Great Central Railway Steam BR Standard 4-6-2 70013 Oliver Cromwell heads up the hill out of Leicester with a train for Loughborough.

Climbing Stoke Bank on the East Coast Main Line on British Railways Standard 4-6-2 70013 Oliver Cromwell. We were running engine & coach from Southall shed to Barnetby on the GCR in Lincolnshire prior to pulling The Cheshireman railtour from Cleethorpes to Chester the next day.

LNER A4 pacific 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley waits in the bay at Scarborough station to haul the return railtour to York which will shortly arrive behind another Gresley A4, 60019 Bittern.

Charlie the fireman holds tight to his hat as 34046 Braunton speeds through the station with a London-Rowsley steam special

1922 Etat Pacific 231G558 at the head of the 11.15 train to Pontrieux in Paimpol station.