Minutes after sunrise on a crisp winter morning, four class 34 GE U26C's power up the long grade leading out of the Groot Marico valley with a block load of soda ash, heading east to Krugersdorp.
A few winter flowers, a bright red stop sign and a blue locomotive help to brighten up an otherwise drab winter landscape in the Sandveld region of the Free State, where the branch line to Wessels... (more)
Most of the traffic on the branch line to Wesselsbron and Bultfontein these days is mealies (corn). At Losdorings (loose thorns) siding north of Wesselsbron, two TFR class 34-400 GE U26C's stop to... (more)
Three Transnet Freight Rail class 34-400's from Kroonstad depot hauling a block load of empty grain wagons for the grain silos at Wesselsbron or Bultfontein. There are seldom any TFR trains on thi... (more)
Four GE U26C's are more than enough power for this mixed freight of containers and empty fuel tankers, leaving Syferbult station, heading east to Krugersdorp.