The locomotive N°82 has initially been built by Nippon Sharyo in Japan for the Royal Siam Railways in 1953. It has never been delivered to this country and it came to the Hedjaz Railway in 1959.
There are many such bridges on the Hedjaz railway. Some of them have been destroyed by Lawrence of Arabia ! This one is located north of Amman somewhere in the desert.
Heavily oil stained, 5 feet 6 inch gauge 3831 built in the 1950s as an ALCO DL500 leaves Kolpur with the "Chiltan Express", 1000 Lahore to Quetta. Kolpur is the top of the tortuous Bolan Pass muc... (more)