The German railway on its first trip to Kiautschou on 13 October 1900 / Photographer: Scherl

A group of members of the Reichstag board freight cars of the Morogorobahn built by the Germans / Photographer: Scherl

Chinese officials of the imperial German Reichspost before their mail train on the Shantung railway line / Photographer: Scherl

German colonialists on the opening trip over the Hanku railway bridge / Photographer: Scherl

Recording date: 01.06.1904 Chinese celebrities in Jinan, the provincial capital of the Chinese province Shandong, before the opening train of the so-called Shantung Railway built by the Germans between Qingdao (Tsingtau) and Jinan (also: Jinanfu or Tsinanfu). She connected the German protectorate Tsingtao with the Chinese railway network / Photographer: Scherl

German engineers pose for the construction of the central railway from Daressalem to Morogoro / Photographer: Scherl

Locals move a 75hp locomobile onto the railway tracks / Photographer: Scherl

After the completion of the Mittellandbahn in the German colony of East Africa, Europeans pose at the arrival of the first locomotive at Lake Tanganyika. In front of the locomotive stands a locomobile. near Goma / Photographer: Scherl