YDM-2#6423 coupled with dead YDM-2#6725 ready for departure from Butterwoth with International Express for Bangkok. The train starts with three bogies from Butterworth. 12 bogies are added at Hatyai Jn in Thailand. Butterworth, Malaysia, 2004-9-8. By Ab

YDM-2 6423 ready for departure with the International Express from Butterworth (Malaysia) to Bangkok (Thailand). Attached to the lead loco is dead YDM-2 6725. Butterworth, 2004-9-8. By Abhijit.

Dead loco YDM-6725 with three bogies of the Royal State Railways of Thailand trailing. Butterworth, 2004-9-8. By Abhijit.

Many Indonesian sugar mills still use steam locos. This maybe the last working Mallet in the World. West of India Portuguese Railways were the only Railway Company in India to use a Mallet. The biggest loco ever built, the Union Pacefic Big Boy was a M

An antiquated water-drawing mechanism at Amri station, near Kotri, Pakistan. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

Kasur station, Pakistan. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

Multan station, Pakistan. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

Rawalpindi station, Pakistan. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

'Eagle', a KS class 0-4-2 loco originally of the Indus Valley State Railway and later of the Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi Railway (#152), preserved at Moghulpura works, Lahore, Pakistan. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

On the narrow-gauge Kohat railway, which was closed in 1982. Pakistan. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

CWD #5704, which featured in the BBC's Great Railway Journeys. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

The Landsdowne bridge over the Indus at Sukkur, Pakistan, built in 1887, seen circa 1953. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

A passenger train leaving Lahore station, Pakistan, circa 1952. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

Push-pull steam operation over the Khyber pass, Pakistan. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.

Narrow gauge loco Class G #54 with coaches at the Railway Golf Club, Lahore, Pakistan. Photo by Iqbal Samad Khan.