One of the original steam engines. Note the gear teeth (cogs) between the rails. On steep sections of track a gear lowers from beneath the engine, meshing with the cogs, and providing traction.
Looking across the street from the Diakofto train station.
Old train cars in Diakofto
Old train cars in Diakofto. I believe the blue is old engines and cars, older than those currently in use, but younger than the steam engine previously shown.
Old engine/passenger car.
Looking to the gorge roughly toward Kalavryta from just east of the Diakofto station.
The driver's station in the new engine/passenger car, taken at the Diakofto station.
En route upward. The album map gives an idea of the terrain.
The beginning of the cogs. The tracks, as well as the engines, have been recently replaced, leaving evidence off the track to the left.
A section of track carved into the hillside.
More evidence of civil engineering. I think that's Jeff being reflective to the right of the tunnel.
Stream off the right of the tracks.
Falls to the left of the track and the opening of a tunnel.
A bridge.
The train at the Kalavryta station just after we had disembarked.
Kalavryta was the site of what <i>Lonely Planet Greece</i> terms one of the worst atrocities in World War Two. On 13 December 1943 the Germans set fire to the town and shot all the adult males. A few men survived, women and children survived, but this was December, which is bad time to be without shelter or food. This memorial shows a woman and children attending to one of the first orders of business, burying the dead. It's at the Kalavryta Holocaust Memorial, which is the site of the town's school building, the basement of which was full of women and children when the Nazis set fire to it. The story goes that a young enlisted man did not stop them from escaping, though the thought is that he was supposed to. The school building burnt, but was rebuilt, and is now a very good museum.
Solar hot water heater. There were many of these throughout Athens and the Peloponnese.
Beth standing before the Kalavryta Holocaust Memorial, which I believe was the site of the massacre.
Kalavryta from the Holocaust Memorial.
Kalavryta, this time with soom zoom.
Kalavryta station, looking north.
Snow capped peaks east of Kalavryta.
The old engine again after our return to Diakofto. One of the plates says "Paris 1891" which likely refers to the place and date of manufacture.
Back in Athens, looking at the Acropolis.
This is where I showered, and kept as much water in the corner as possible. Actually, I adapted to this pretty rapidly and wouldn't particularly mind this setup in a house, though it requires a watertight floor and another drain (to the left of the toilet in this case).
