Empty train railroad during the day in the countryside of Brazil in Pindamonhangaba © Camila Pastorelli/shotbywomen

Meals on Wheels food vendor sits on the steps of the carriage to look at the view from on board the Second Class Sleeper train from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

A elderly man looks out of the train window bars showing the length of the train on the station platform.passenger travel Second Class Sleeper carriage from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

A family travel in the Second Class Sleeper carriage from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

From the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1945, approximately 50.000 members of the German Jewish community (Berlin area) were deported from Berlin Grunewald train station to concentration camps on Deu... © Svenja Block/shotbywomen

From the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1945, approximately 50.000 members of the German Jewish community (Berlin area) were deported from Berlin Grunewald train station to concentration camps on Deu... © Svenja Block/shotbywomen

From the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1945, approximately 50.000 members of the German Jewish community (Berlin area) were deported from Berlin Grunewald train station to concentration camps on Deu... © Svenja Block/shotbywomen

From the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1945, approximately 50.000 members of the German Jewish community (Berlin area) were deported from Berlin Grunewald train station to concentration camps on Deu... © Svenja Block/shotbywomen

From the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1945, approximately 50.000 members of the German Jewish community (Berlin area) were deported from Berlin Grunewald train station to concentration camps on Deu... © Svenja Block/shotbywomen

A road construction site: A worker using a transport engineering instrument, a lightweight deflectometer, for measuring subgrade and subbase layers percents of compaction © Aleksandra Prlincevic Milovic/shotbywomen

Construction of tramway track with steel rails coating - vibration damping material for noise reduction, in the urban area, detail © Aleksandra Prlincevic Milovic/shotbywomen

Man working on light rail construction site, cutting vibration damping material for tram rail tracks noise reduction, hands detail © Aleksandra Prlincevic Milovic/shotbywomen

A man sleeps with a blanket over him in the Second Class Sleeper carriage from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

Passengers on the Second Class Sleeper from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

British tourist sleeps looking out of the barred window on the Second Class Sleeper from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

Dry Snacks Vendor holds a stack of snacks on board the Second Class Sleeper train from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

Vendor selling lottery cards on the Second Class Sleeper from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

Vendor selling plastic children toys on board the Second Class Sleeper train from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

A vendor wraps potions in newspaper to hand to sell on on the Second Class Sleeper from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

A boy rests next to an open barred window in the Second Class Sleeper carraige from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

A Mum and daughter travel in Second Class Sleeper from Madgoan in Goa to Kochi in Kerala India. Mum lays down while her daughter plays a phone device. © Vicki Couchman/shotbywomen

The station master stops an incoming train at Station Dolene. © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

Nearly every day, Sabie Djikova carries 20 liters of fresh milk from her home in Ablanitsa to the station Tsvetino. She waits in the little station before boarding the train to Velingrad.In Velingrad,... © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

A female train conductor checks rail passes and sells tickets to a group of Pomak women heading home by train from the town of Velingrad after selling their milk and other products. Some gets a pensio... © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

Pomak (Bulgarian Muslim) women wait for the first morning train to travel from the Tsvetino station to Velingrad, where they sell the milk and products they produce at market. © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

Sabie Djikova and other women disembark from a train at station Tsvetino, a station that serves several small communities that are reliant on train service. © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

Kristian Vaklinov, who in 2014 helped organize a petition to save the Septemvri-Dobrinishte narrow gauge railroad that crosses the Rhodope mountain and includes a stop at the highest station on the Ba... © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

Steam is expelled from the train's heating system as the day's first train is prepared for departure from station Velingrad for a 5:55 departure. The Rhodope Narrow Gauge railroad is the last of its k... © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

Engineer Valentin Petrov checks the train's engine after returning from the round trip journey (250km in total) from Septemvri to Dobrinishte. The Rhodope Narrow Gauge railroad is the last of its kind... © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

Engineers Jamal Starkov, right, from Cherna Mesta and Halil Mustafa, who come from the Muslim majority Rhodope town of Avramovo take a break at station Kostandovo. © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

The view from a 1965 Henschel locomotive, part of the batch of 10 narrow-gauge specific engines put into service that same year. © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen

Sabie Djikova, a milk producer from the Rhodope mountain town of Ablanitsa, waves to the conductor as she disembarks from the train in station Tsvetino. © Jodi Hilton/shotbywomen