This is a hand-built model of the armoured train from the War Hammer 40K universe, made by the guys from the Games Workshop studio team.
The power source of the railways of the Imperium all depend on the level of technology of the planets themselves, in one of the Gaunts Ghost books (think Necropolis) they describe fighting in a train yard surrounded by the wreck of Diesel Shunters, Locomotives and rolling stock. In Warriors of Ultramar they mention a high speed rail network that while automated they still contained a driver which sounds to me very much like how subways and the tube in London are run so guessing electric HST's, the first Siege of Vraks book contains the mention of the massive lumbering trains of the Adeptus Mechanicus making out huge massive Locos. They do not mention what they are powered by but since the Mechanicus use plasma reactors for many large vehicles like Ordinatus arrays (note in Mechanicus an Ordinatus is mounted on a railway wagon) so it is safe to assume these AD Mech Locos were the same.
For the gauge this again is up to the planets, I would guess the Mechanicus would have a standard gauge for their forgeworlds (at a comfortable massive size) but other planets may have gauges as little as 2ft (think narrow gauge lines in Wales) or could go up to as wide as 10ft or more, not really known.
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