For a peso or two (5 cents), these enterprising young men will push you the last mile to your village on one of these homemade rail carts. This is however a busy commuter line with trains ever... (more)

Another angle from the same footbrodge as an earlier shot, as 3836 pushes a train towards Alexandria.

Catering is often an integral part of a railway journey, and this guy will sell you hot samosas whether you're sat inside, hanging off the outside or on the roof of the train!

Part 3 of the Pamban Bridge Trilogy - 14048 curves off the bridge and past the fishing village of Pambam on the fi... (more)

In the last rays of afternoon sun, little GE #02.308 waits to leave Lusaka with the thrice-weekly passenger train from Livingstone to Kitwe as vendors make the final transactions through the windo... (more)

One photo which I'd forgotten about from my trip to Pambam Bridge, 14048 is dwarfed by the Indian Ocean as it heads onto the island of Rameswaram at the southern tip of India.

In the rough Puente Alsina district, the tracks are barely visible (let alone level!) outside peoples front doors. Here the little GE runs around one of 5 daily trains on this branch of the metre ... (more)

As a family tuck into their lunchtime meal, 6715 arrives at Bihariganj with a fully loaded metre gauge train from Purnia.

The arrival of the twice weekly mixed train from Tabora is big business in Mpanda and here 73R05 (on hire from Indian Railways) has cut off the boxcars and gets ready to shunt the passenger vehicl... (more)

A chinese built CAT locomotive appraoches Rawalpindi. The decorations to the loco had been added to inaugurate a new container terminal in the port of Karachi the two days earlier before it was tr... (more)

Whoever saw an RS-3 so clean? CPTM in Sao Paulo run an excursion under the name Expresso Touristico every Saturday or Sunday to the fringes of the city so the Paulista's can escape the chaos. Here... (more)

I thought I'd try something a bit different for my 100th rp.net photo.... A world away from the modern computerised offices of Europe and the USA, the Station Master at the big town of Kishoreganj... (more)

Whilst stocking up on chai and biscuits for our boatride, a WDM3D heads over the River Ganges as people prepare for their ... (more)

On a quiet Sunday afternoon at least ten YDM4s from India and two MLW MX620s can be seen resting on Tabora shed. See more at www.youthwith.fotopic.net.

3166 hauls an express train to Cairo out of Luxor station.