peasant versus train race, Yugoslavia, circa 1937

The caption says that after mocking the oldest railway in the country, an employee challenged the peasant, named Yoyin Milovich, to run faster than the train between Bar and Sutorman. Milovich accepted. And Milovich won.

That loco looks a fairly old one so maybe the outcome is believable. Published in the French magazine Le Pelerin.   The area is today in Montenegro.