The midday African sun beats down on CFM No.572 at a wayside halt on the ramshackle branch line from Inhambane. The little woodburner is in light steam - see the smoke curling from the firebox - a... (more)

Railroad Development Corp. chairman Henry Posner III watches the track ahead as engineer Felipe Mario rolls his westbound freight towards Nampula late on a summer afternoon in Northern Mozambique.... (more)

Engineer Felipe Mario at the thottle of a westbound freight on the privately-operated Norte Corridor line from Nacala port in Mozambique to the landlocked country of Malawi. The loco shows the gri... (more)

With some very un-african weather rolling across from the South Africa border (behind the station buildings), Indian built but ALCO powered D607 waits to head back to Maputo with the daily passeng... (more)

D-501 and D-502 near the end of their overhauls and get a final once over before being released back in to traffic.

With their 6 cylinder ALCO engines revealed for work to be carried out, D603 and D609 receive attention from Indian fitters flown in as part of the RITES contract with CFM, in the main CFM worksho... (more)

Vendors circulate their wares to sell through the train windows, as the daily Cuamba to Nampula train pauses at Mussa in Northern Mozambique to pass the opposite working.

This locomotive is a hire unit from RRL-Grindrod, South Africa U26C 34-01 (ex Transnet).

I discovered the site had no shots of either Mozambique or Swaziland, so here's two firsts in one shot! A Canadian-built (MLW) 4-8-2 belonging to the railways of Mozambique heads a load of iron or... (more)