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This was taken near the base of Overlander Falls. These falls are in Mt. Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. There is a short but beautiful trail that leads here from Yellowhead Highway.
To see more pictures from our 54 day road trip please check out my Road Trip 2009 set
Five EMDs lead the Overland Mail West into Nevada's remote Palisade Canyon. Just three weeks into the UP-WP merger, old WP train symbols (such as the OMW) were still being used. Dave Stanley photo ©2025
Turkey: October 1971
The AEC bus (YRC 45) off the road between Agri and Horosan, in north-eastern Turkey. The bus had an underslung AEC AH470 horizontal engine (7.7 litres) and five-speed gearbox. From new it had been part of the Burton-on-Trent Corporation bus fleet in England, before being sold to Safaris Overland for use on the route(s) out to India and back. The main problem with these particular AEC horizontal engines were the 'wet' cylinder liners which made them prone to overheating, and blowing cylinder-head gaskets, when worked hard or in very hot weather – or both. In the hard winter conditions the engine ran perfectly.
Not far from the road is the Aras River; at this spot it is still a relatively young river since it rises in the Erzurum region, but over a thousand kilometers later it empties into the Caspian Sea.
Overland is a coffeetable book based on my four-week trip along the Overland Route in 2014 with some material from other trips added. Unmistakably the Big Boy 4014 makes an appearance, too. Unrestored and on the first road trip in 2019.
28x33 cm
hardbound with dust jacket
230 pages
230+ pictures in color and monochrome
€ 169
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Overlander - Yutong TC9 - YE18 FMA seen on Emerson Way, Newton Aycliffe on September 12th 2018.
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Turkey: December 1971
This is the AEC Reliance bus I was driving from London to India; it is photographed here parked by a deserted Turkish beach towards the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Before we lost sight of the sea a handful of the passengers had a last swim before we turned inland. The weather was turning colder, but not enough to deter the swimmers; three days later I had to buy a set of snow chains for the rear wheels as the weather had deteriorated drastically. I'd planned to drive through Syria and Iraq to get into Iran, but at the Turkish–Syrian border we were denied entry as the Syrian–Iraq border was closed by the worsening political situation between those two neighbouring countries. This left no other option than head north-east and enter Iran at the Bazargan border crossing – and unfortunately, this meant we couldn't avoid the severe weather of the eastern-Turkish winter. We ended up stuck in Erzerum for nearly a week until the infamous 8,000-odd foot Tahir Pass re-opened after the massive snowfall in that region; in a way the delay wasn't too bad after all as one of the passengers, a girl from New Zealand, had to be driven to the Erzurum Hospital with a suspected collapsed lung. I remember that of the three doctors who examined her, two were smoking cigarettes as they did so. The temperature dropped to around -40 C; the bus engine had to kept running continuously for six days and nights to prevent it freezing solid. On a slightly increased tick-over speed the engine consumed four or five gallons of diesel a night. One night in Erzurum we heard gunfire in the small hours, and in the morning, not far from the hotel, we saw a pile of dead wolves in the road – they had been shot in the night by soldiers when they came into the town looking for food. The 1971-72 winter in that region had been the coldest for over two hundred years.
At the other end of Elko Yard: UP #1965 with five tank cars. Behind it is a westbound stacker stopped for a crew change.
On Scene of a HOUSE FIRE at 10915 West 109th Street in Overland Park on March 8, 2015 at 1457 hours.
Picture ID# 1137
Overland found on a farm in Central NSW. No cars on this property are for sale, now or in the future, and the owner wishes to remain anonymous.
Nepal: October 1975
Here is the 45-seater Van Hool bus parked in a small town on the road between Pokhara and Kathmandu. I'd stopped for diesel and was being careful not to buy too much as the bus owner didn't want to sell it with anything like a full tank – not even a quarter full, he'd said. In Delhi, the bus had been cleaned, inside and out; the interior showed no evidence that forty-plus people had recently travelled from Europe in it – apart from a bit of inevitable road dirt, the thing was spotless.
While I was there I had a good wander round, being nosey as usual. To my mind, it's better to explore such places on your own; I found something to eat and then drove on. Several days later, there was to be one last trip to be done – but with the little 20-seater bus – this one was too long for the narrow, twisting dirt road up to the Chinese border.
Seen in Worthing on route 109
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I like using telephoto lenses for landscapes, they compress the perspective in a way that I find pleasing. This is a short, but very steep walk down a winding path (Especially with a 1kg Sigma 150-500 zoom in tow).
Some of the passengers on the Safaris Overland trip to India, that left London in July 1971. Seen here in Lahore, Pakistan, from left to right are Alan, Marie, Sylvia and Hillary.
Journey Beyond Rail’s “The Overland train service between Adelaide and Melbourne 2AM8 powered by PacNat’s NR67, crosses the Murray River for what is likely to be the penultimate time on March 23 2020. The run came as a surprise after the company’s website proclaimed that the service had been cancelled along with The Ghan and The Indian Pacific.
This is another shot of our first sunset in Tanzania.Please see my set Africa Overland for more information.
The Melbourne - Adelaide express . A consist of old Lima cars refurbished and enhanced , which will total eight when finished though the real thing , in its heyday , could be 15 or more .... The loco this clip is a 1970s Hornby S class .
The Melbourne-bound Overland powered by NR116 passes the summit of the line at Mount
Lofty in the Adelaide Hills on the morning of 5 Jan 2007.
UP 1996 the SP heritage unit leads UP train MPRCB as it heads West on Main 1 at Lombard, IL as seen from the fairly new bicycle path bridge that was once the right of way of the CGW.
La correa Overland de División Ministro Hales mide 2,8 kilómetros, permitiendo llevar el mineral desde el Chancador Primario hasta el Stockpile. Se encuentran completamente sellada, para evitar polución, respetado así el medio ambiente.
The Overland, 6AM8 hauled by NR12 overtakes an Adelaide Metro Belair service at Sleeps Hill on 18/09/2015.