Hurtling down the rails, whistle blaring, huffing and puffing coal soot and steam, Beautiful Helena is a sight to behold as it proudly chugs along the passenger run it's made for 73 years. At full ...

From Luxtorpedas to a poem by Julian Tuwim, from Polish film success to the Narty-Dancing-Brydż, trains were a huge part of Poland’s Interwar period. Glitzy, speedy (in some cases even more so than ...

The old trains ply a regional track between Wolsztyn and Poznan, 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. In all, 11 steam locomotives - Helena and seven others from Wolsztyn, one from Germany, one from ...

Hurtling down the rails, whistle blaring, huffing and puffing coal soot and steam, Beautiful Helena is a sight to behold as it proudly chugs along the passenger run it's made for 73 years.

Steam trains. Back in their day they were the main mode of transportation for millions of people. They used to chug through cities and across the countryside, leaving billowing columns of white ...