Magical South African morning light.
Garratt double header. Steam super power on 2 foot gauge!
NG4 #16 is taking water at the Vailima siding.
Ex South African NGG 16 #153 is en route near Vailima with a short mixed train. The Sandstone Estates Railway located near Ficksburg is certainly the most beautiful garden railway of the world !
Magical Sandstone sunrise.
Two tiny 0-4-2 T locomotives built by Barclay (1916) and Fowler (1914) are catching the morning sun during one of the first runpasts at Sandstone.
NG4 number 16 is a 2 foot 4-6-2 tender locomotive been built by Kerr Stuart in 1913.
NG4 number 16 is about to get a soaking (as was the photografer!) from a storm, as it runs along the pond on the Sandstone Estate Railway.
NG15 number 17 is a Henschel locomotive built in 1931.
The narrow gauge Garratt locomotive NGG-13 number 49 is hauling a freight train on the Sandstone Estates Railway.
Narrow gauge Garratt NGG16 number 153 is hauling a mixed train on the Sandstone Estates railway. The mountains in the back are in Lesotho.
Even hauled by two locomotives this freight train had big difficulties to climb the severe grade on the Sandstone Estates Railway
