"The locals of the Caribbean port town of Buenaventura had come up with a novel form of transportation-the Moto-Rail. The front wheel of a common 125 motorbike was bolted onto a wooden platform, which had a runner on one side, connecting with the old train track, while the rear wheel sat on the track and drove the rig.

We sat on a little wooden bench on the platform, and the driver started the motor and off we went. It was an ingenious mode of transportation, and as we rode along the tracks, we could not suppress our maniacal grins.

When we rounded a corner, and coming in the other direction another moto-rail approaching. This was a single-track railway and someone had to get off. Our driver asked us to get off the platform, and he and his co-pilot swiftly picked up the whole bike and platform combo off the tracks and on to the side of the railway, the other bike passed us, and we picked the bike back up and placed it back on the tracks, this happened another two or three times on the way to our final destination, some 25 minutes down the tracks, to San Cypriano"

Via: Daniel Shell & Jaquie Brazier