Photo of the Day

March 4, 2020

Tea and Sugar Train

For eight decades, the Tea and Sugar Train was the sole source of supplies for remote villages in Australia—villages populated by railway workers who tended to the Trans-Australian Railway. The route was shut down in 1996.

PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLIAM ALBERT ALLARD, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION

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