On a beautiful autumn afternoon, two of Transnet Freight Rail's Class 10E1 Co-Co 3kvA heavy haul freight locomotives are seen just west of Arbor station, crossing the Wilgerivier (Willow River) wi... (more)

I call them “Big Blues”, but train crews refer to them as “breadbins”…. Transnet Freight Rail’s Class 10E/10E1/10E2 Co-Co 3kvA heavy haul freight locomotives, still sporting predecesso... (more)

As autumn rain clouds build up in the east, a quartet of rather dirty Class 18E’s is seen entering Argent station, with a long train of tarpaulin covered “DZ’s”, the most well known type o... (more)

Each year in March, pink and white Cosmos flowers are in full bloom all over the South African Highveld, signalling the end of a long, hot summer. A very grubby 40-year old Class 6E leads a Class ... (more)

RRL Grindrod has the contract to haul reef for Harmony Gold from Brand siding in Welkom, to the Nyala and Tshepong mines at Friedesheim and Odendaalsrus respectively, which involves operating over... (more)

A few days of late summer rains have produced a beautifully crisp and clear morning, which finds the Cape Town - Johannesburg Premier Classe approaching the R501 road bridge between Frederikstad a... (more)

The recommissioning of Harmony Gold #2 (renumbered from #8) included a repaint in an eyecatching bright red livery. Here #2 smokes it up while hauling empties from Harmony One Plant to the exchang... (more)

Resplendent in its new red and orange livery, recommissioned Harmony Gold #2 (renumbered from # 8) is heading away from the photographer towards Harmony's Bambanani mine, where it will reverse dir... (more)

Harmony Gold's # 1 hauls a train load of reef from Brand siding towards Harmony One Plant for processing. Brand siding is the exchange point, where RRL Grindrod locomotives hand over their loaded ... (more)

Fifty four years after being delivered to the South African Railways (SAR) from the USA, this class 31 Bo-Bo (GE U12B) survives in industrial service with RRL Grindrod. Previously SAR # 31-009, sh... (more)

African Rail & Traction Services (AR&TS) have a number of locomotives on hire to Anglo Platinum for their Rustenburg system. Here no.055, an ex-Mozambique Railways (CFM) U20C built by GE (Brazil),... (more)

The driver's assistant throws the tumbler to change the points, as the loco backs out of the Waterval depot yard to begin its morning shift. No.3004 is one of Anglo Platinum's ex-Sheltam GE (Brazi... (more)

Anglo Platinum bought eight of Sheltam's GE (Brazil) C30-EMP's, 3001 - 3008, and has begun repainting them from Sheltam green into their own blue & white livery. With the Magaliesberg mountains an... (more)

Heuningspruit (Honey Creek) is one of the five stations on the Free State mainline that still have operating semaphore signals. A pair of 6E1's in Spoornet orange livery are about to pass the star... (more)

Metrorail's 06:25 service from Johannesburg to Pretoria is seen departing Rhodesfield station at 07:19. Rhodesfield was opened in 2010, to provide an interchange with the new Gautrain service oper... (more)