Early on a beautiful winter morning and 18-270 is seen here at the head of this tanker train as it exits Ashburton Station. The train would have departed Durban approximately 2 hours earlier and ... (more)

While a typical afternoon thunderstorm brews, Class 18E locomotives (18-416 in the red Transnet Freight Rail Livery) with their trains stand baking in the extreme Northern KwaZulu Natal heat at Da... (more)

Class 36 (200) diesel shunter, 36-214, working the yard just opposite the old Clairwood Racecourse. Designed by General Motors Electro Motive Division and built by General Motors South Africa as ... (more)

Two of the few remaining Class 8E centre cab electric shunting locomotives (still in their wonderful SAR Red & Whisker livery), E8047 & E8086. Having managed to escape the cutting torch, they are... (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.

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)

Three class 35s lead a Rovos train up the grade through an overgrown Kleinberg as a local snaps a photo on her phone as well.

A cement train bound for Saldanha slows to stop at Kalbaskraal for the driver's assistant to throw the switch up ahead for the Saldanha line.

Class 33 (400), 33-491, was on shunt duty at De Aar in the Northern Cape when I visited in December 2010. Built in 1969 for South African Railways by General Electric as GE U20C, this locomotive ... (more)

Durban bound trains headed from left to right by 18-416, 18-112 and 18-224 at Danskraal in Ladysmith, probably awaiting crews. The Natal Main Line sees a lot of traffic on it with varied loads in... (more)

Two class 35s lead a cement train through Platteklip outside Darling towards Saldanha.

A trio of Class 37 diesels, headed by 37-044, cross the Umkomaas Bridge on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast with a load of empty wagons for NPC (Natal Portland Cement) at Simuma. Between March 1989 ... (more)

Vintage Class 5E1 Series 5 locomotive, E1101, originally built in 1966, pictured here at Danskraal Locomotive Depot in Ladysmith. Transnet Freight Rail have retained two Class 5E1 Series 5 locomo... (more)

Cheers and whistles from this track maintenance gang as they get an early start on their busy day. They are seen here leaving New Durban Yard (just north of Durban Station) with one of the PLASSE... (more)