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The Super High Speed Manufacturers Page has been opened.	The Super High Speed by Country reference is opened!	BLS is the other of the leading Swiss operators, as well as being privately owned and having international operations as well.  Learn more on the BLS Page!	An unlikely design from the Soviet period of Russia: the medium heavy VL26 / VL26M hybrid with electric / battery operation!
The Pendolino high speed tilting trains page has been completely upgraded.	The Picture Menu has been opened! You asked and we created, the menu where the choosing of the subject can be done  easily by browsing the pictures!	The Picture of the Month now has the sleek lined Norwegian BM 73 on focus.	The huge Alpine Railway layout is getting more standardized modules. Here Alpine  Railway Hobbyist are assembling a new module. All Alpine Railway pages have been updated!
The Finnish section now has a Finnish Classes Page as well.	The Finnish section has a new Finnish VR-Yhtyma Roster Page.	The Finnish Central Europe connection is currently taken care with Ferries. We take a quick look at the Baltirail - a connection between North Europe and Berlin.	A BNSF Railway Page was opened!
Our BNSF Roster page has new locomotive pictures added on it!	Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturers Page has now updates.	A product from another time: the Soviet period Tep60 locomotive on the new review!	A Picture of the Month Page for 2009 started with this bright winter picture from the Sumpter Valley!
A traditional Swedish Rc6 locomotive in Uppsala. The Swedish section is upgraded!	Much of the Inter City Express Page has been upgraded and facts added, including the ICE2. Picture of the ICE3 by Ilkka Siissalo.	The first of the Flirt EMUs have arrived to their Finnish operator in Helsinki Metropolitan area.	We followed a huge stack train in the California Central Valley documenting it's locomotives and cars with 30 pictures showing even the small details. Take a look!
We started writing down the development of the super high speed in the U.S. too and are quite confident of the progress this time. Picture of the Amtrak California local by John McKey 2008.	Alpine Model Railway Shows Page has been updated. Alpine Railway is a huge modular layout in H0 scale. Picture by John McKey 2008.	The Russian High Speed Page was opened to follow the developments in Russia. Picture of the Sapsan Velaro like ICE3 by Ilkka Siissalo.	The Super High Speed Network building of China is always interesting and the projects impressive! Picture by Johanna Riihimäki 2008.
The Super High Speed Lines Page has been upgraded. Here an original colored TGV-PSE pair zooms by the photographer back in 1987.  Picture by Pekka Siiskonen.	You asked and we opened the Super High Speed Records Page! Picture of the TGV-POS by Sanna Siissalo 2008.	The new meets the old, and dozens of other updates on the huge TGV family of super high speed trains on  the TGV/AGV page!  Picture by John McKey 2002.	The Super High Speed and High Speed Main Page has been upgraded. Picture of the Finnish Pendolino by Stanislav Voronin 2007.
The Pendolino theme page has been upgraded. Here a Virgin Trains Pendolino 390 train whoozing by at Watford Junction.  Picture by Stanislav Voronin March 2007.	Super Fast trains in Russia? See our Sokol page! Picture by Stanislav Voronin.	The Picture of the Month for November comes from Helsinki Finland, where the several months of semidarkness has settled again. Picture by Stanislav Voronin 2007.	The Eurostars Page has uprades and news on the Channel tunnel fire.
An AGV theme page added!  Pictured here is a Thalys, Picture by Sanna Siissalo 2008.	Watching trains at Paris Gare du Nord can be highly interesting for a railfan! The multitude of different TGV, Eurostar, Thalys and ICE super high speed units is astonishing! Pictured here is a Thalys double unit, Picture by John Mckey.	See the pictures on the new SNSF (The French National Railways) TGV-roster page, starting with the pictures of the very first TGV-PSE units, like this unit in it's original color of orange and dark blue.  Picture by Pekka Siiskonen 1983.	An ICE3 unit in Munich Germany. The ICE1, 2, 3 and Velaro page has been ugraded. Picture by Ilkka Siissalo.
The Pacific Northwest of the 1940's in the Hobby section has been upgraded. Have a look!	See videos on the Union Pacific and the BNSF roster pages!  Picture by Left Coast Rail Videos 2008.