It was year 1987. I needed to get from Rangoon to the central Burma.
Flying was the most logical option, but due to the unsecure and unreliable domestic flights the company I worked for had decided to avoid flying and use rail transport which had a long, over 130 years history in Burma.
It was overnight shaky – up and down, left and right, back and forth – and slow ride on rails to Thazi, a railway junction just before Mandalay. Nothing much to see during that dark night, but some weeks later on the way back to the capital I travelled by day train. Most of these pictures are from that trip.
(You might be interested of my earlier photo blogs about childen in Burma and armed men in Burma.)

A computer, especially a portable one, was something speacial late 80's. My local help and interpretor Ko Ko Zaw used that during the train ride.
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