Bridge Games 3
The spray from the Victoria Falls painted a rainbow in the sky, reaching over the bridge. As mighty as the 4-6-4+4-6-4 Garratt is, compared to the falls it’s just a sm... (more)

Bridge Games 2
On the 16th of July we did the Victoria Falls bridge from the Zambian side, again at sunrise. The “cloud” behind the train is the spray from the water falls. Exactly... (more)

Bridge Games 1
The master spot of Victoria Falls is the bridge over the gorge, close to the falls. In the early morning we chartered a freight train which passed the bridge several... (more)

Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow …
On the way from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls we needed to take some water. Matetsi has a working water column. As the bunker was full the man ... (more)

Eruptive 2
After a problem with the vacuum brake was solved 15A 414 performed an eruptive departure from the largest marshalling yard on the Bulawayo – Victoria Falls line, Thomson... (more)

Reflection
Just before Lukosi (written with an s) siding, a small station and coal loading point in the scrubland, the Bulawayo – Victoria Falls line crosses the Lukozi (written with... (more)

Running for live
No, not really, just for saving a few seconds. Crossing rails ahead of the departing 14A 519 in the very last moment ... The sun has just risen and illuminates the s... (more)

Eruptive 1
Long time ago that Garratts hauled heavy trains out of Thomson Junction, down in the Deka river valley. In the technical state the locos are now, 24 years after the last... (more)

Bulawayo, Westgate
Westgate used to be a busy place, surrounded by tracks to everywhere. With the economic collapse of the country the signal cabin is out of use, the signals as well... (more)

Look into my eyes, baby
The welder of the steam shed in Bulawayo pauses a little moment as he got aware of the photographers. Beyond him Garratt 14A 519 is being prepared for the cha... (more)

Water, dropped by 14A 519, flooded the ground in the steam depot of Bulawayo, a shadow of its former self. However, the morning before the FarRail Tours charter train event, two locos were in stea... (more)

NRZ Class 14A Garratt #525 heads on to the turntable after completing a roundtrip to Cement.

NRC Class 14A Garratt #525 storms out Mpopoma Yard with the Mbalabala Mixed train. This is on the double track mainline connecting Bulawayo to Harare.

NRC Class 15A Garratt #414 storms out of Thompson Junction with a heavy freight train bound for Bulawayo.

Mainline Garratt Mixed: Running on the the Bulawayo-Harare line, NRZ 14A #525 storms upgrade into the scenic countryside of southern Africa. The train is passing the one-time junction of Northolt,... (more)