The smell of burning woods. Heat from the steam engine. It’s like stepping into another era. Chugging away on the historical North Borneo Railway evokes a romance of bygone era. The official North Borneo Railway was established on 1 August 1914. World wars and the Depression paralysed the system intermittently, then finally in 1971 steam locomotives were replaced by modern diesel trains. In 2000, the steam engines were resurrected as a historic tourist attraction. The engine