near Qurna, Egypt.

The small locomotive pulls an endless train at walking pace. It brings the harvested sugarcane from the fields to the factory.
As always there are to few boxcars to get all the cane to the sugarfactory. The boss of the train decides whose crop will wither on the land and whose will get to the factory in time.
It has been like this as long as anybody around here can remember.

This train is featured in a book by the journalist and antropologist Richard Critchfield: Shahhat, about the daily life of a farmer in this area. The man with the axe looks very much like Shahhat (on the photo in the book).
Critchfield spent more than two years here, living with the farmer Shahhat and his family, as a participant-observer in their lives.
It's an interesting book to read, when you visit the area around Luxor. It's available in Cairo at the AU and in Luxor in most bookshops, but certainly at Gaddis.