The last time I’d had the pleasure of gracing my ears with the sound that the “best” engines in the world have to offer, seemed like forever ago. Some might say that the 6th October 2006 was a long time ago, it certainly seemed like it, however once Alco A9101 had departed Tripoli and got Read the Rest…
Thursday 6th September 2012 Entering Mozambique at the Malawi border via the land crossing of Nayuchi/Entre Lagos was interesting to say the least (see Malawi September 2012 for more). Once we’d spent almost an hour messing about in no mans land doing all the necessary paperwork to leave one country and enter the next, our Read the Rest…
Having arrived almost directly from the USA, via a day in London, I met up with two travelling companions at the Kabula Lodge in Blantyre, a place I’d stayed on my previous trip to Malawi. Airport pick-up was arranged through the hotel and they actually sent one of the taxi drivers they use to collect Read the Rest…
This trip had been chopped and changed so much it looked nothing like our original plan by the time we’d finished. The sole purpose, as always, was seeking out Alco’s and we managed to do the following: Adirondack Scenic Railroad Delaware & Ulster Railroad Delaware Lackawanna (courtesy of a Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society Read the Rest…
We’d been attempting to do some of the Canadian Shortlines that operated with Alco’s for some time and this trip ended up being the one, although one fell by the wayside early on unfortunately, that being the York Durham Railway in Toronto, who couldn’t operate their annual top & tail trains over the GO Transit Read the Rest…
This trip was a bit of a last minute thing. Driven by two things really, one being the fact that i’d been wanting to go again for a while and two the fact that it seemed Tunisian Railways, SNCFT, were having a bit of a loco crisis (according to recent reports during 2012) which had resulted Read the Rest…
A quick trip away with the other half gave way to a little bit of cranking. I have to say i was truly amazed at the frequency of trains, and the amount that were loco-hauled. The fact that they were electric was irrelevant. I just couldn’t resist a bit of “spinning” about in Brussels during Read the Rest…
A cracking trip, considering the bad start we had. In fact it was about as shocking as they come. After landing in Delhi and spending the morning freezing our nuts off on the morning commuter trains, we flew to Kolkata with Indian Airlines and went overnight to Malda Town, via Katwa. The following morning we Read the Rest…
This trip was a lot earlier in the year than any of our other trips and as such meant the Monsoon hadn’t quite finished completely. Even at 01:00 on the morning of arrival it was hot and humid in Mumbai…… The day in Mumbai was spent travelling round the local area getting various bits of Read the Rest…
The last stop of my trip, that had started in the US! As with all my trips to Malaysia, this one was as different as the rest had been from each other. The one aim of doing solid YDM4s was almost achieved, but there was always that fill-in move. Tourists can buy period tickets, available Read the Rest…
Having flown virtually direct from Philadelphia in the US, via London Heathrow, for a 5 hours stop-over, and Kuala Lumpur for a couple of hours, I ended a very long journey indeed as we touched down in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I was very much looking forward to getting straight into things that afternoon Read the Rest…
This trip “through” Canada was part of our larger USA trip but the Keewatin Railway Co. train we went to ride on was like a stepping stone from Utica, NY to Skagway, AK. A stepping stone that took 2 long distance train journeys and 4 flights to navigate….. Our train travel in Canada during our Read the Rest…
This trip also encompassed some travel in Canada as well and was the start of a very long trip indeed, which encompassed no less than 13 flights, and ended in Malaysia, after a few days in Vietnam! The US part of the trip was all about Alco Locomotives on some of the US Shortlines, all Read the Rest…
Talk about changing the plan. This trip was one constant change from start to finish, even before we left the country. And all thanks to DLW spitting out WDP4Bs like they were coming into fashion. Thanks to someone spotting the ever reliant Avadh Assam Express with a WDP4 we had to change our plans from Read the Rest…