Early on a Saturday morning at Robertson during the Wacky Wine festival as the train gets ready for departure.

35417 in Spoornet orange and 35043 in TFR red lead a mix freight elephant style through Vleidam siding between Heidelberg and Swellendam.

The unique 4-8-4 class 26 # 3450 "Red Devil" (Transnet National Collection) is leased by the Ceres Rail Company and made operational again since last year. The world most powerful "... (more)

4-8-2 19D ("nineteendolly") # 3322 and 4-8-2 19B # 1412 of the Ceres Rail Company with the FarRail Tours charter on the former New Cape Central Railway line between Robertson and Vink.

Look out for the Devil

Intrigued by the arrival of fifty photographers in their tiny hamlet, the locals turn out to see what's up, to be greeted by the famous Red Devil blasting... (more)

Riding the "Red Devil", world's most powerful narrow gauge steamlocomotive. The cape gauge (1067 mm or 42 inch) 4-8-4 "Northern" was rebuilt in 1981 by the english mechanical e... (more)

Cleaning the grate of the 19B # 1412 of the Ceres Rail Company in Ashton.

Swellendam was the easternmost point of the 9 day steamtrain journey of FarRail Tours through the Western Cape province. A local is making a "selfie" with the 19B # 1412 of the Ceres Rail Company.

The steamtrain of the FarRail Tours journey through the Western Cape region is on the former New Cape Central Railway line from Worcester to Voorbai, beetween Ashton and Bonnievale, with the Lange... (more)

The 4-8-2 19D ("nineteendolly") # 3322 of the Ceres Rail Company doing some shunting in Ashton on the former New Cape Central Railway line Worcester-Voorbaai.

A picture like in times long past, when steam locomotives were commonplace in Ashton. The 19D # 3322 travels through the station with a mixed freight/passenger train, while the grate on the 19B # ... (more)

The 4-8-2 19D ("nineteendolly") # 3322 of the Ceres Rail Company with the FarRail Tours charter on the former New Cape Central Railway between Jubilee and Drew.

The "Red Devil" 4-8-4 "Northern" steamlocomotive 26 # 3450 of the Ceres Rail Company is storming through Klaas Voogdsrivier with a 13 car photo freight for FarRail Tours.

The former South African Railways 4-8-2 19D # 3322 of the Ceres Rail Company is pulling the mixed freight/passenger charter of FarRail Tours on the former New Cape Central Railway line Mossel Bay ... (more)

The former South African Railways 4-8-2 19B # 1412 ((built by Berliner Maschinenbau AG, former L.Schwartzkopff/Berlin/Germany in 1930) of the Ceres Rail Company is pulling the mixed freight/passen... (more)