African morning. The early sun highlights the countryside south of Bethlehem on the former through line from Bethlehem to Bloemfontein.

Two very unusual visitors greet the early sun at McCloud as they prepare to pull a Trains Unlimited special back over the hill to Mount Shasta City.

A westbound freight starts its long slow climb to 10,000-foot Cumbres pass on a cold December day. This train had been preceeded by a flanger and spreader train to clear the way.

Another old Anscochrome saved by Photoshop. The headbrakeman takes water prior to the Farmington turn leaving Farmington for Durango. The Farmington tank was notorious for bad water, but apparent... (more)

The Cal Northern (former Northwestern Pacific) crosses the Russian River southbound at Healdsburg on a warm spring afternoon with the California poppies in full bloom.

This is very similar to an image posted earlier by Michael Allen, and provides an interesting comparison of digital (Mike's) versus film (this one). I probably shot my last role of film on this t... (more)

The sun is barely over the horizon, the temperature is near freezing, and the air is still as 15F (4-8-2) 2056 doubleheads with 25NC (4-8-4) 3472 in this recreation of the overnight train from Blo... (more)

On the Cape-Natal branch GMAM 4074 climbs the steep grade between Ceighton and Donnybrook with a mixed train in early morning light. The round huts (rondavels) are typical Zulu homes. Steam Loco... (more)

The Paton Country Narrow Gauge Railway is relaying for tourist operation some of the Natal 2-foot gauge line made famous in Paton's "Cry, the Beloved Country". And motive power includes this 2-foo... (more)

Your basic doubleheader steam glint shot. Here 15F 3016 (4-8-2) leads 25NC 3472 (4-8-4) and the tour train for one of the last shots of the day.

The 3472 thunders by with a runpast on the Bethlehem Bloemfontein line. The matched red and gray livery of the tour train matched the SAR color scheme in use when this line saw regular steam powe... (more)

African sunset. Last light refects off the side of a preserved SAR 2-foot gauge Garratt on the Sandstone Estates private railway. Amazingly this little Garratt was built in 1968!

A perfect recreation of the way I remember this line in 1983. The 25NC's handled both freight and passenger between Bethlehem and Bloemfontein over this scenic line with many 2 percent grades in ... (more)

A GMAM Garratt heads a special mixed train on the steeply graded Natal line that started as a through route from Durban to Capetown, but was never completed due to the rough country. The countrys... (more)

The original VIA Rocky Mountaineer has just passed the westbound Canadian at Stephen and is headed east for its next stop at Lake Louise. You can barely see the Canadian's rear dome above the seco... (more)