Dec 2004, Myanmar. The train station in Myin Salang Gone village. Photo by Przemysław Kozłowski
Oct 2010, Irkutsk, Russia. Conductor (rus. Provadnica) is checking passenger's ticket. Photo by Maciej Moskwa
April 2011, Rajasthan, India. A man in the sleeper class in the Merta- Jammu train. Photo by Sławomir Rompski
Oct 2010, Russia. Trans Syberian train, Buryat soldiers on their way from Novosibirsk to Ulan-Ude. Around 2290km of train journey in total. Photo by Maciej Moskwa
Oct 2010, Russia, Trans Syberian train. Passenger from Astrakhan on his way to family in Irkutsk. Around 5000km one way. Photo by Maciej Moskwa
Oct 2010 Russia. Trans Siberian train, Buryat soldier on his way to Ulan-Ude. Photo by Maciej Moskwa
April 2011 Rajasthan, India. People working on the railroad tracks. Somewhere between Bundi and Citor. Photo by Sławomir Rompski
Sep 2006, Albania. Enver Hoxha's bunkers are seen through the window of Tirana-Durres train. Photo by Przemysław Kozłowski
Sep 2007, Tehran, Iran. Metro wagon with the sign "Women only," men aren't allowed to travel in this wagon. Photo by Maciej Moskwa
Like the varying cultures the trains draw lines between, our photographers found each train had its own personality, from the bullet-ridden window of a rail car in Albania, to the sleek brightly lit "women's only'" tube in Iran. We found a common humanity and need for connection between far-flung destinations like Moscow and North Korea where drastic differences in development, dramatically insular political regimes and electrified fences split the two, but the Trans-Siberian railway connects them. These are our favorite locomotive links between worlds.