Portal:Trains/Selected picture/Week 50, 2008

A train of the Eritrean Railway, showing class 440 locomotive at work on the mountainous section between Arbaroba and Asmara. The railway is narrow gauge and is slowly being rebuilt after the devastation wreaked upon it by the war of independence. It is one of the few railway systems still in existence (excluding tourist railways) using equipment like the 1930s Italian-built 'Littorina' railcars behind 1930s-vintage Mallet steam locomotives.