This is how trains pass from Europe to Asia... At least nowadays. After the completion of Marmaray Project, trains will pass Bosphorus (Istanbul Strait) through seabed submerged tunnels.

The first high speed train of Turkey owned by TCDD is approaching her homeland on a ferry. At the far behind the Blue Mosque (left), St. Sophia (center) and Topkapi Palace (right) can be seen.

The train set needed to be dismantled in order to fit onto the ferry. It was divided into 3 parts of two cars each. Normally the train doesn't have any coupler hooks but two scharfenberg couplers at each end. The intermediate couplings consist of special guide pins and huge screws.

Photo by Ali AKSIN (aliaksin@gmail.com)