While a typical afternoon thunderstorm brews, Class 18E locomotives (18-416 in the red Transnet Freight Rail Livery) with their trains stand baking in the extreme Northern KwaZulu Natal heat at Da... (more)

Class 36 (200) diesel shunter, 36-214, working the yard just opposite the old Clairwood Racecourse. Designed by General Motors Electro Motive Division and built by General Motors South Africa as ... (more)

Two of the few remaining Class 8E centre cab electric shunting locomotives (still in their wonderful SAR Red & Whisker livery), E8047 & E8086. Having managed to escape the cutting torch, they are... (more)

Sandstone Estate's on loan GMAM (No.4079) to Reefsteamers is seen here, storming the slight gradient leading into Luipaardsvlei, Krugersdorp.

The setting sun catches No.2650 and her short mixed train performing a runpast on the Rayton to Cullinan branchline, to the east of Pretoria. (24th May 2014).

A Durban to Johannesburg container train, hauled by the usual set of three 18E's, makes its way up the valley between Greylingstad and Sprucewell on the Natal main line.

Along the Natal main line near Greylingstad, a set of five 18E's heading up a manganese train of type C wagons, passing an old stone walled kraal (corral) on their way to kwaZulu-Natal.

At sunrise on a cool winter morning, Friends of the Rail's ex- South African Railways class 19D 4-8-2 no. 2650 is shrouded in steam at the club's Capital Park depot.

Rolling across the Free State plains on a summer morning, this pair of Kroonstad based class 34-400's are heading north with a late running mixed freight of grain wagons and butane and propylene t... (more)

Three class 35s lead a Rovos train up the grade through an overgrown Kleinberg as a local snaps a photo on her phone as well.

A cement train bound for Saldanha slows to stop at Kalbaskraal for the driver's assistant to throw the switch up ahead for the Saldanha line.

Class 33 (400), 33-491, was on shunt duty at De Aar in the Northern Cape when I visited in December 2010. Built in 1969 for South African Railways by General Electric as GE U20C, this locomotive ... (more)

Durban bound trains headed from left to right by 18-416, 18-112 and 18-224 at Danskraal in Ladysmith, probably awaiting crews. The Natal Main Line sees a lot of traffic on it with varied loads in... (more)

A nice hello from Section Manager / Driver Ettiene Smith behind the controls of veteran Class 6E1 electric locomotive, E1658, while passing through Ashburton Station. The Transnet Engineering Wo... (more)

Class 18E electric locomotives staged under the Argyle Road Bridge at the yard in Durban. Paired together are 18-402 / 18-405 (purple Shosholoza Meyl livery), 18-433 / 18-425 (PRASA blue livery) a... (more)