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

Due to a disjointed gauge conversion process, many metre gauge lines now find themselves cut off from loco sheds, leaving engines to be transported on flat wagons over the broad gauge network, suc... (more)

199 pushes a Chicago Union bound train under the impressive gantry at La Grange.

1822 trails an Akron to Rockside train under the magnificent West Aurora Road bridge at Brecksville.

On long term loan from Indian Railways, 6648 blasts through the tiny station of Tenang with the Express Rakyat from Singapore to Butterworth via Kuala Lumpur.

In a unique and very colourful livery, 14962 partners 16751 (also from Katni shed) with a heavy freight train moving slowly through Jaipur.

In one of the last metre gauge strongholds, MHOW based YDM4 #6736 pauses at Kalakund so a classmate can be attached to the rear for the climb up the ghats to Patalpani.

18677 of Malda Town shed pulls away from Barsoi with a Katihar to Radhikapur passenger train on a foggy West Bengali morning.

The busy metre gauge junction of Pilibhit is starting to resemble a museum as the rest of Indian Railways modernises and converts to broad gauge. Here 6528 pulls in with the Ruhelkhand Express fro... (more)

With all its 16 ALCO cylinders at full roar, 14734 blasts to through Nangloi to the utter indifference of the passengers using the adjacent line as a convenient seat!

Passing a fine array of semaphore signals as it pulls into the loop at Rau, 6607 leads a Ratlam to Akola train on the soon to be converted metre gauge tracks around Indore. Within a few months thi... (more)

All around Delhi the slums spill out onto the railway tracks and here a signal stop creates a whirlwind of activity around 15543 and the Meerut Cant to Rewari shuttle. For all their "futuristic" s... (more)

Bangkok's impressive Hua Lampong Station is seen here in an update to George W. Hamlin's 1974 photo http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=197742

Our oarsman for the morning takes a breather as he admires the pair of ALCOs taking a heavy freight train over the holy River Ganges on the Malaviya Bridge.