Sitting on the pit in Witbank's loco depot for a service.

Collecting some empty pulpwood wagons at Wildrand siding.

The Class 11E's are 25 kV locomotives that entered service in 1985, and are used exclusively on the Richards Bay COALink route.

Displaying the difference between their left and right sides, Class 7E3's E7285 and E7293 await the arrival of their new crew.

Vryheid's yard shunters are idle. For the moment, that is...

Basking in the late afternoon sun in Vryheid yard.

The big boys of the Richards Bay coal line. Four dusty Class 11E's are ready to depart further inland with about 200 empty coal wagons.

Coupling up....

It's 07:45 and Empangeni's gopher is already at work assembling sugar wagons into a train.

Serving as the Empangeni gopher, 34-612 sits idly basking in the afternoon sun. Proof that Empangeni is sugar country is evident from the sugar cane that lies strewn about all over the yard.

A pair of Class 8E shunters, E8002 and E8007, move off on an errand to the industrial area south of Mandini station.

Maydon Wharf is a madhouse at the best of times, with trains, 26 wheeler big rigs and impatient motorists jostling in the limited space.

Apart from the headlight and windows, the only clean thing visible on this hard working loco is a new air hose. It's hard to believe that there's a bright orange locomotive hidden underneath all ... (more)

A foursome of Class 18E's pass through Mooirivier with a Johannesburg bound container train.

Two trains await their marching orders, one behind SAR liveried Class 6E1 E1532, and the other behind Class 18E 18-224, recently rebuilt from a Class 6E1.