Asmara loco shed

The 17h train from Marrakech to Fès in the typical Maroccan landscape with a japanese engine E 1250 from Hitachi.

2 local girls ignore metre gauge YP 2358 as it leaves Kodaikanal Road with the Madurai Tirupati Express (note the headboard). This line is now converted to 5 feet 6 inch gauge.

Electric locos 7104, 7112 with 7108 as the mid-train remote unit work empty coal train EA36 approaching the level crossing at Yukan on 10 January 2010.

Electric loco 7103 is basking in early morning summer sunlight at Yukan on 10 January 2010. This loco was stowed at Yukan awaiting its next requirement for revenue use in coal traffic.

Pune-Mumbai Deccan express running parallel to river Indrayani at Kamshet .

The beautiful electric locomotive bringing a passenger train from Brasov into Predeal doesn't rate a glance from the elderly lady standing nonchalantly at the edge of the ROW. The 4-5 goats she is... (more)

The banners in the background and the whitewash on the platforms - already losing the battle to years worth of grease and other fluids seeping through - are part of preparations for Romania's inde... (more)

A daily Casablanca - Oujda service (a 10 hour trip across Morocco), hauled by a DH 370 (EMD GT26CW-2), is crossing one of the new bridges near lake Idriss 1er. The lake is only a few years old, an... (more)

Yeshvatpur bound Karnataka Sampark Kranti express through a hill cutting near Adarki station.

East German built Bo Bo electric loco No 7370, climbs out of the enormous open cast coal pit at Pingzhuang. Note a similar train in opposite direction and steam loco at top of picture.

The harsh mountains take on unreal hues under an impossibly azure sky. A pair of decorated QJs with 6638 piloting, drift lazily (and economically) downhill on the sharp curved approach to the famo... (more)

All was absolutely still and overnight mists still lingered. At 0700 the sun was yet to rise in Jingpeng valley. A rising crescendo of sound from an unseen source was building until - finally, th... (more)

Oujda - Tanger train hauled by a DH 370 (EMD GT26CW-2). Note the pillars in the river bed; they're remainders from the 600 mm gauge railway that connected this part of Morocco before the standard ... (more)