Beautiful location for a beautiful steam engine.
Ex works class 15A 4-6-4+4-6-4 Garratt 422 'Inkonkoni' (wildebeest) does some shunting around Bulawayo station.
Ex Rhodesia Railways Beyer Garratt hauls a freight up and around the Zanguja horse shoe. The train conveys some coal for the Victoria Falls Hotel and international traffic for Zambia. Although the... (more)
Ex Rhodesia Railways 20th "Insuga" heads North to Victoria Falls.
A condensing 25 class climbs away from the servicing stop at Oranjerivier, its exhaust framing another train coasting downhill behind a pair of locos from the same class. The lead loco of this tra... (more)
De Aar depot was a major steam shed for SAR, most of it's allocation was class 25 condenser locos and class 25 non condensers. This shot illustrates the front end differences between the two types... (more)
ADTRANZ no 2105 lead asouthbound passenger train in anice looking curves between aswan and high dam.
My first track side view of an SAR 4-8-4!. "Ilise" is seen hurrying a north bound passenger train for Kimberly. Although only 3'6" gauge speeds of 70MPH were not unknown. This was taken on the fir... (more)
14CRB 4-8-2 No. 1882 leads GEA Garratt No. 4023 past the home signals at Oudtshoorn. Below freezing weather and morning sun highlight the steam. Alan Crotty recently posted a shot of this train ... (more)
An early morning double header, lead by a 14CRB class Mountain, storms past the semaphors at Oudtshoorn, on the way towards the Montagu pass.
It's just after sun up and a group of locals wait for a freight to pass by on the 2 foot gauge Port Elizabeth to Patensie line.
By the time I got to South Africa the big Garratts were gone from the mountain passes and working their last miles on the flats between Vryburg and Mafikeng.
Two Pacifics, 16DA #876 and 16E #857 accelerate away from the station at Sannaspos.
SAR 4-8-2 heads out of the sun rise at Abbots Dale
