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ISR #701 is a GM class G26CW Co-Co diesel, imported to Israel to haul mainly coal trains to the Ashkelon electric power station. On the 17 May 1995, it is seen pulling such a train into Ashkelon. Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com>

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Tel Aviv Central station on a busy Sunday morning in 1993. At nine a.m., ISR #610 has just entered the station with its morning express train from Haifa. The leading coaches are painted brown, the trailing in blue, but they’re all standard class. #610 is a powerful beast, just the type to pull a train that long. Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com>

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To see more of ISR’s freight trains, one should head for the Negev desert and the freight-only line to Dimona and Oron. On the cold morning of the 03 January 1995, a freight train is approaching Dimona station with a full load of phosphates from the Tzin mines. It is a mighty climb from the desert to Beersheba, hence the class 600 diesel. Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com>

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ISR #613 is a big machine – much too big for that small tractor. #613 had to be pushed backwards, into the workshop. With no adequate yard engine to perform such duties, a farm tractor is used instead. After some ten futile minutes of trying to talk the diesel into entering the shop, they gave up and just left it there. I wonder if they ever managed to move it eventually. Haifa-Kishon, 04 April 1990. Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com>

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Train accidents and incidents are rare in Israel – but not always. On the night of the 04 December 1992, a freight train with a full load of phosphates from Dimona to Haifa was derailed just north of Natania, when one of wagons jumped off the main line. Fortunately, the train was traveling slowly, so no serious damage was caused to the rest of the train. ISR #611, the engine assigned to the ill-fated train, is here seen back in Natania station with its freight train on the following morning. Photo and scan by Alon Siton <a_siton@hotmail.com>

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Israel, 07/05/2005. A freight train facing south, waiting somewhere between Qiryat-Gat and Be'er-Sheva. Egy tehervonat déli irányva nézve, valahol Qiryat-Gat és Be'er-Sheva között várakozik. Photo: Zoltán Ádám Németh (nza@freemail.hu)