Photos - Fotos: By Rail - Trains around the world - The Boston Globe - The Big Picture - 47 photos - 13.05.13
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By rail
Simple and
efficient, rail travel nonetheless inspires a sense of romance. By
train, subway, and a seemingly endless variety of trams, trolleys, and
coal shaft cars, we've moved on rails for hundreds of years. Industry
too relies on the billions of tons of freight moved annually by rolling
stock. Gathered here are images of rails in our lives, the third post
in an occasional series on transport, following Automobiles and Pedal power. -- Lane Turner (47 photos total)
An
employee adjusts a CRH380B high-speed Harmony bullet train as it stops
for an examination during a test run at a bullet train exam and repair
center in Shenyang, China on October 23, 2012. (Stringer/Reuters)
2
Commuters
disembark from suburban trains during the morning rush hour at
Churchgate railway station in Mumbai on July 11, 2012. (Vivek
Prakash/Reuters) #
3
A
worker walks through Madrid Atocha train station during a general
strike in Madrid on November 14, 2012. (Daniel Ochoa de Olza/Associated
Press) #
4
Parts
of old locomotives are seen in the train cemetery in Uyuni, near a salt
flat some 290 miles south of La Paz on November 5, 2012. These
locomotives and freight cars were part of Bolivia's first railway
network that carried minerals between Uyuni and Antofagasta, Chile,
nearly a century ago. (David Mercado/Reuters) #
5
People walk through Grand Central Terminal on November 1, 2012 in New York City. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #
6
Passengers
board a train as they rush home to be with their families in remote
villages ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, in Dhaka on
October 25, 2012. (Stringer/AFP/Getty Images) #
7
People
wait for their train to stop at the Solna subway station on November 6,
2012 in Stockholm. Over 90 of the 100 subway stations in Stockholm have
been decorated with sculptures, mosaics, paintings, installations,
engravings and reliefs by over 150 artists. (Jonathan
Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images) #
8
Clown
Andri Hendri performs on a commuter train in Jakarta on January 9,
2013. Hendri earns about 150,000 rupiah ($15.60) a day from commuters
when he performs on trains. (Beawiharta/Reuters) #
9
An
actress in period costume poses for photographers next to a steam train
which used to carry passengers in the 19th century, at Moorgate station
in London on January 13, 2013. "The Tube" is celebrating its 150th
anniversary in 2013. (Facundo Arrizabalaga/EPA) #
10
People
sleep inside a circular train stopped at Yangon's central station
September 17, 2012. Around Yangon, with its growing and increasingly
demanding population of almost five million, a circular train operates,
moving passengers through its suburbs. On a three hour long ride, a
train made of rusted vehicles, marked with different classes but little
visable difference between them, takes passengers around the city
stopping briefly at numerous small stations. Barely changed since the
British colonial era in the early 20th century, some of the decades-old
buses and trains are starting to be retired. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters) #
11
A
woman reacts as people join the No Pants Subway Ride on the uptown 6
train in New York on January 13, 2013. The event is an annual flash mob
and occurs in different cities around the world. (Carlo
Allegri/Reuters) #
12
Commuters
walk on an installation of a musical staircase designed like a piano at
a train station in Osasco, Brazil on January 10, 2013. Out of 42 steps,
34 have been fitted with "piano keys" that activate when stepped on.
(Paulo Whitaker/Reuters) #
13
Freight trains are readied at the railroad shunting yard in Maschen, Germany on September 23, 2012. (Fabian Bimmer/Reuters) #
14
Workers
keep an eye on train traffic coming and going from grand Central
Terminal from a master control room high atop the building in New York
on January 8, 2013. Grand Central terminal celebrated its 100th
anniversary on February 1. (Kathy Willens/Associated Press) #
15
People
gather for the inauguration of the Porta Susa high-speed train station
in Turin on January 14, 2013. (Alessandro Di Marco/EPA) #
16
Thousands
throng a platform waiting for trains to take them home after the Maha
Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India on February 10, 2013. (Saurabh
Das/Associated Press) #
17
People
ride on top of a northern-bound train toward the US-Mexico border in
Juchitan, Mexico on April 29, 2013. (Eduardo Verdugo/Associated Press) #
18
A
train is loaded with coal at the Borodinsky opencast colliery near the
Siberian town of Borodino on November 15, 2012. The Borodinsky colliery
is the biggest opencast coal mine in Russia - 4 miles long and 328 feet
deep - and was built from 1945 to 1949 by gulag prisoners to produce
about 20 million tons of coal a year. (Ilya Naymushin/Reuters) #
19
A
train of the Harz Narrow Gage Railway runs to the summit of the
Brocken, the highest mountain of the Harz, Germany on January 15, 2013.
(Matthias Bein/EPA) #
20
A
Lego train passes through a model of the Tanjung Pelepas shipyard
during a media preview of Legoland Malaysia in Nusajaya, Malaysia on
September 14, 2012. (Edgar Su/Reuters) #
21
Dave
Patterson tinkers with a model train before the Model Rail Scotland
exhibition on February 21, 2013 in Glasgow. (Jeff J Mitchell/Getty
Images) #
22
An
employee holds a toy train during the London Toy Fair in Olympia,
central London, on January 23, 2013. (Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images) #
23
A
train made of chocolate during a Guinness Book World record event ahead
of the Brussels Week of Chocolate, entices at Brussels South station on
November 19, 2012. The train by Andrew Farrugia of Malta is made of
1,285 kg of chocolate and is 34.05 meters long. (Julien Warnand/EPA) #
24
A vendor sorts vegetables next to a railway track as a train passes by, in Dhaka on September 10, 2012. (Andrew Biraj/Reuters) #
25
Russia's
President Vladimir Putin pauses in his railway car before a meeting on
the development of railways and railway service in Moscow on October 19,
2012. (Alexey Druzhinin/RIA-NOVOSTI/ POOL/AFP/Getty Images) #
26
Passengers
crowd a carriage on a train bound for Chengdu at a railway station in
Shanghai on January 15, 2013. An estimated 224 million passengers
travelled via trains during the Spring Festival. (Aly Song/Reuters) #
27
A
conductor checks tickets onboard the new evening commuter train on
November 13, 2012 as it winds its way from Nairobi's Central Business
District to the new railway station of Syokimau on its first day of
commercial operation. (Georgina Goodwin/AFP/Getty Images) #
28
Mercedes
Robinson and other members of the Victory & Deliverance gospel
choir sing on the 2012 Alaska Railroad Holiday Train as it cruises along
the Turnagain Arm to Indian and back to Anchorage, Alaska on December
1, 2012. (Bob Hallinen/The Anchorage Daily News/Associated Press) #
29
The
Le Burgeoise wagons of the A Line subway in Buenos Aires carry
passengers on January 11, 2013 during the so-called last ride of the
historic trains. Buenos Aires city Mayor Mauricio Macri decided to
replace the fleet with Chinese-made wagons. The A Line was the first
subway in the southern hemisphere and its trains are among the ten
oldest still working daily. The La Brugeoise wagons were constructed
between 1912 and 1919 by La Brugeoise et Nicaise et Delcuve in Belgium.
(Leo La Valle/AFP/Getty Images) #
30
A
model presents a creation during the "Express Fashion" catwalk show
onboard the Dubai Metro on January 23, 2013. (Jumana El Heloueh/Reuters)
#
31
Lukasz
Rostkowski, alias L.U.C (left) and Dominik Smuzny of Poland perform
during "Collecting & Breeding Human Time" on the Cosmic Underground
art train in Riga, Latvia railway station on September 24, 2012. Cosmic
Underground is a multidisciplinary train connecting the East and West of
Europe in a two-month journey from Estonia to Portugal and tells a
story of time dimension through audiovisual installations, theatrical
performances and live music in ten cargo train carriages. (Ints
Kalnins/Reuters) #
32
A
man rides a train on Tokyo's Yurikamome Line that runs without any
drivers or conductors along Tokyo Bay. (Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated
Press) #
33
Revelers
wait for a subway train as they make their way to the Sambadrome for
the first night of the annual Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro on
February 10, 2013. (Pilar Olivares/Reuters) #
34
A
commuter rides a train painted with murals promoting post-election
peace in Nairobi on February 25, 2013. (Thomas Mukoya/Reuters) #
35
Snow falls on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on January 7, 2013. (Bulent Kilic//AFP/Getty Images) #
36
A tram runs in Lisbon on October 18, 2012. (Rafael Marchante/Reuters)#
37
A
man smokes a cigarette as he stands with his bike on a local train in
New Delhi on November 8, 2012. (Kevin Frayer/Associated Press)#
38
Students
in traditional dress walk near a 1860's-era steam locomotive in the
Carlos Antonio Lopez Railway maintenance shed, currently a museum,
before dancing at a cultural fair in Sapucai, Paraguay on October 12,
2012. The steam train, inaugurated on October 21, 1861 for cargo and
passengers, shut down in 2001 before being resurrected in 2012 as a
tourism attraction. (Jorge Saenz/Associated Press)#
39
A
passenger peers from a train heading to the Once train station in
Buenos Aires on January 28, 2013. (Natacha Pisarenko/Associated Press)#
40
Miners
Sakiba Colic (right) and Semsa Hadzo, coal technologists, ride a coal
mine train during their 8-hour shift in the mine in Breza, Bosnia on
January 16, 2013. (Amel Emric/Associated Press)#
41
A
Soyuz rocket is rolled out to the launch pad by train on October 21,
2012 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (Bill
Ingalls/NASA/Associated Press)#
42
A
crane lowers a retired Blue Line subway car into the Boston subway's
underground Emergency Training Center on September 17, 2012 for first
responders to undergo training for emergencies on subways, trolley cars,
and buses. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff)#
43
People
look at a giant drilling machine completing the 4 kilometer-long
Saverne tunnel beneath the Vosges mountains in Eckartswiller, France
during a ceremony on February, 25, 2013, as part of the second phase of
construction works for the east European high speed train line between
Paris and Strasbourg. (Patrick Hertzog/AFP/Getty Images)#
44
An
urban explorer runs through an unguarded subway tunnel under
construction in Toronto last year. The tunnel is part of a new
extension being built in the city called the Toronto-York Spadina Subway
Extension, and is expected to open by 2015. (Tom Ryaboi/tomry)#
45
Two
train drivers shake hands after stopping at Gara de Nord station during
a two-hour protest by railway workers over delayed salary payments in
Bucharest on January 16, 2013. (Bogdan Cristel/Reuters)#
46
A
driverless vehicle, controlled by an advanced navigation system,
arrives at the Personal Rapid Transport station at the Masdar Institute
campus in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. The United Arab
Emirates introduced the world's longest automated rail system, 32 miles,
in Dubai in 2009. (Kamran Jebreili/Associated Press)#
47
Railway
workers clean a train in Bangalore on February 26, 2013. The railway,
the country's largest employer with some 1.4 million people on its
payroll, runs 11,000 passenger and freight trains and carries 19 million
people daily. (Manjunath Kiran/AFP/Getty Images)#Photos - Fotos: By Rail - Trains around the world - The Boston Globe - The Big Picture - 47 photos - 13.05.13
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