An Eastbound train enters Gamtoos, the junction to Patensie. This engine, like all SAR 2 foot guage locomotives has inside frame wheels. It is operated by the Apple Express Society, which has a ... (more)

The Apple Express Society NG 15 hauls her train into Loerie Station on a cool winters morning

This locomotive, known as a "Kalahari" to SAR crews crosses the bridge over the Van Stadens River Gorge with a train chartered by Goeff's Trains. She made this crossing many times during normal s... (more)

The two narrow gauge Garratt's steam locomotives NGG13 number 49 and NGG 16 number 153 are double heading a freight train on the Sandstone Estates Railway. The train is running in South Africa but... (more)

This oil-burning locomotive hauls its train above the bank of mist that had enveloped the town of Malmsbury.

Oil-burning No 2910 leaves Koornburg for Malmesbury. The mists from the cold Atlantic currents creep over the hills. The spring wheat has just germinated.

An example of the standard South African branch line locomotive, complete with Vanderbilt Tender, is seen with a typical mixed train, conveying empy fruit waggons to Kirkwood during the orange sea... (more)

The 25 members of the South African Railways Class GO Garratt Locomotive spent most of their lives hauling chrome ore trains up the escarpment from Steelpoort to Lydenberg in the Eastern part of t... (more)

NG15 at groot draai on the Sandstone estates narrow gauge railway, heading a mixed train

This is odd looking little mixed train is used for student training out on the isolated and little used Ft. Richardson classification yard. The twin geeps are used to practice switching with newl... (more)

This is odd looking little mixed train is used for student training out on the isolated and little used Ft. Richardson classification yard. The twin geeps are used to practice switching with newl... (more)

This is an odd looking little mixed train on a very obscure and rarely used piece of trackage. This train is deep in the hard to access Ft. Richardson Army garrison. Ft. Rich is a veritable maze... (more)

Climax locomotives were once very popular with wilderness logging operations and shortline railroads. They were relatively inexpensive, small, powerful and reliable. Alas, in 2010, there are ju... (more)

Locomotive Class E.652 pulls a mixed freight train passing at sunset the bridge of "Grizzana" on the railway Florence / Bologna.