Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 18, 2012

The rear-gunner in a Sikorsky UH-53 helicopter watches the end of the new Mazar-e-Sharif to Termez, Uzbekistan, railroad stretch into the distance. When completed, the 47 mi line will provide a valuable commercial link between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan across the Amu Darya River via the Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge.