Amtrak Northeast Regional # 163 on its way from Boston to Washington DC, on the western approach to the Hell Gate bridge on a beautiful early Fall afternoon.

Amtrak Northeast Regional # 163 on its way from Boston to Washington DC, crossing the Hell Gate bridge on a beautiful early Fall afternoon.

A week long maintenance closure of the Cape main line between De Aar and Kimberley resulted in the luxury Blue Train (as well as Rovos Rail and the Premier Classe) being rerouted via Noupoort and ... (more)

If Shosholoza Meyl's "Algoa" from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg happens to be running late on a summer morning, daylight photography is possible south of Bloemfontein on a section norma... (more)

A week long closure of the Cape main line between De Aar and Kimberley resulted in the luxury Blue Train (as well as Rovos Rail and the Premier Classe) being rerouted via Noupoort and Bloemfontein... (more)

A Durban to Johannesburg container train, hauled by the usual set of three 18E's, makes its way up the valley between Greylingstad and Sprucewell on the Natal main line.

Along the Natal main line near Greylingstad, a set of five 18E's heading up a manganese train of type C wagons, passing an old stone walled kraal (corral) on their way to kwaZulu-Natal.

At sunrise on a cool winter morning, Friends of the Rail's ex- South African Railways class 19D 4-8-2 no. 2650 is shrouded in steam at the club's Capital Park depot.

Rolling across the Free State plains on a summer morning, this pair of Kroonstad based class 34-400's are heading north with a late running mixed freight of grain wagons and butane and propylene t... (more)

A quartet of Millsite-based class 34 GE's are running up the short grade out of Syferbult on a summer afternoon, hauling containers from Krugersdorp to Mafikeng. This siding was once a manned stat... (more)

A quartet of Millsite-based class 34 GE's running through Vlakdrif siding on a summer afternoon, hauling containers from Krugersdorp to Mafikeng. This siding has just one loop which is frequently ... (more)

Twenty minutes after sunrise, a pair of new 18E's from the 800 series in the TFR livery, are heading northeast from Leeudoringstad towards Klerksdorp, crossing a small stream as they work a mixed ... (more)

CHINA BLUE....two of Transnet Freight Rail's Chinese class 20E dual voltage 3kV DC / 25kV AC electric locomotives (Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., a subsidiary of the China South Locomotive and R... (more)

At 6:00am the early morning mist is still hanging over the hills in the background, as the rising sun catches these three 18E's in Spoornet blue livery run through Greylingstad station with a cont... (more)

A northbound container train from Durban to Johannesburg is seen passing the silent ruins of a long abandoned old farmhouse, as it heads towards the Balfour tunnel between Sprucewell and Balfour N... (more)