A 100% genuine Erie-built! Two foot gauge 91-008 with a string of wood wagons at the renowned Apple Express headquarters.
A pair of the few Class 33-400's remaining in service get refuelled below the old coaling dock at Beaconsfield.
End of an era..... Bar at least one modified unit that I've seen repainted in Spoornet blue, the Class 5E1's have now all been withdrawn from service and most will probably soon end up getting cu... (more)
A Class 7E locomotive is being kept company by a couple of steam generator wagons. When steam locomotives started making way for electric and diesel traction in the 1950's, vapor wagons were intro... (more)
(2 of 3) The loaded grain wagons are heavy, so instead of using a chain to pull strings of them, the tractor pushes them out of the way one by one after loading.
(1 of 3) A tractor, chained to the first wagon, is used to pull short strings of grain wagons in position under the loading chutes of the grain silos at Moorreesburg Station.
During the Anglo-Boer war the railroad dependent British Army built blockhouses to protect this bridge and several others against attacks from Boer commandos. This bridge and its blockhouse (off ... (more)
Beaufort West is the end of the line for these Cape Town based 3Kv Class 6E1's. The stretch from here to Kimberley is the stamping ground of the 25Kv Class 7E's.
Two Class 6E's and two 6E1's, the fourth unit dead in tow, enter Laingsburg across the Buffels River Bridge with a mixed goods train.
A pair of Class 8E shunters, E8002 and E8007, move off on an errand to the industrial area south of Mandini station.
The diesels that were originally owned by ISCOR (then owner of the Sishen Iron Ore Mine) are now all part of the Spoornet fleet, but they still work exclusively on the Sishen-Saldanha iron ore lin... (more)
The rear (toilet) end of the Class 18E makes it look like a pirate with an eye-patch.
The Class 11E's are 25 kV locomotives that entered service in 1985, and are used exclusively on the Richards Bay COALink route.
Passing through Kaalfontein with a string of empty coal wagons. The middle of the three locomotives is an older Class 6E.
Shunting container wagons in Table Bay harbour, with Lion's Head in the background.
