The colours of these signals at Crugers, NY are nicely matched with the surrounding fall foliage, as Amtrak's "Electric City Express" from Albany heads south to New York's Grand Central Terminal.

The Johannesburg - Durban mainline, often referred to as the Natal Corridor (Natcor) is electrified double track with bi-directional CTC. These four class 18E's are running "wrong main" on an east... (more)

The billboard seems to speak to this pair of Amtrak GE P32AC-DM locomotives on the point of train 69 'The Adirondack', making its way up Manhattan's West Side alongside the Henry Hudson Parkway on... (more)

This Gautrain Electrostar set is just a couple of minutes out of Pretoria station, seen here climbing the grade out of the Fountains valley and crossing the on and off ramps of the N14 highway at ... (more)

At the end of their shift, the crew of 2013 leave their locomotive to make their way home. Introduced to service in South West Africa (now Namibia) in 1966, this former SAR class 32-200 survives i... (more)

A batch of 30 diesel and three electric ex-Queensland Railways locomotives was recently imported into South Africa from Australia by three South African companies - AR&TS, RRL Grindrod and SAFLog.... (more)

ex- Sheltam Grindrod C30 no.3006 crossing the Hex River on the Rustenburg Platinum Mines main line, heading to Waterval Plant with its train of 15 loaded hoppers.

One lone passenger waits to board this E4 series MAX Shinkansen as it comes to a stop alongside track 13 at Omiya station, en route to Tokyo (MAX = Multi Ammenities Express). The bi-level E4's ope... (more)

One of my rarest catches of the year! Only 3 or 4 sets of passenger coaches remain in their original South African Railways (SAR) red and grey livery, and these are only used in peak holiday perio... (more)

At sunset on the day after Thanksgiving, the apartment buildings on Manhattan's Upper East Side provide the backdrop for a Q local train bound for Ditmars Boulevard in Queens, as it climbs the gra... (more)

This trio of GE class 35's is nearing the end of the long climb from Mission to De Vlei, approaching the route R43 road bridge, with their maximum permissable load of 17 loaded grain hoppers, boun... (more)

Metrorail operates an upmarket express commuter service between Pretoria (Tshwane) and Johannesburg, known as the Tshwane Business Express (TBE). Ageing class 5M2A EMU stock was remanufactured by ... (more)

Day and night, trains come and go at Impala Platinum's main processing plant, visible in the right background. On the left, GE UM10B No.20 waits for ex-SAR class 5E No.24 to move off with a load o... (more)

With both blow down cocks open, ex- South African Railways class 24 no. 3664 performs some shunting moves at Capital Park depot on a sunny winter morning, much to the delight of the photographers ... (more)

Metrorail provides commuter passenger service on the branch line from Springs to Nigel. A class 5M2A motor coach leads its short 4-car train out of Nigel, passing the still operational semaphore h... (more)