On 19th & 20th May, five of the first ten Class 20E Bo-Bo dual voltage 3kV DC / 25kV AC electric locomotives, built in China by Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., a subsidiary of the China South Loc... (more)

A northbound freight behind a pair of 6E1's is held at Irene to allow a southbound Metrorail EMU from Pretoria to cross over from the Up Main to the Down Main loop for its scheduled station stop (... (more)

Running a few minutes ahead of schedule, the overnight "Mail" from Bulawayo glints in the rising sun as it leaves Dibangombie siding, a remote location 40 km south of Victoria Falls.

It's only around 6:20am, but after a winter storm brought snow to the New York area overnight, a Long Island Rail Road crew has already cleared the platforms at Woodside station in Queens, in time... (more)

Sheltam no.5 is a 32-year old U26C which still puts in a full days work on the Rand Uranium railway at Randfontein, seen here departing Millsite with another load of hoppers for Cooke Plant.

A Friends of the Rail day excursion to the diamond mining town of Cullinan, east of Pretoria, works up the grade from Hercules to Capital Park behind ex- SAR class 24 2-8-4 no. 3664.

CHINA BLUE....two of Transnet Freight Rail's Chinese class 20E dual voltage 3kV DC / 25kV AC electric locomotives (Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., a subsidiary of the China South Locomotive and R... (more)

RRL Grindrod's locomotives are employed to haul ore from two of Harmony Gold's mines. Two of their ex-TFR Class 91's bask in the late afternoon sun at Transnet Freight Rail's Welkom station with t... (more)

After three days of almost continuous rain, the clouds finally started breaking up enough to allow some sunshine through. I figured there was a chance of getting a shot of the Premier Classe with ... (more)

Class 19D 2650 "Cheugnette" takes a break at Pretoria North while working a Friends of the Rail "Tshwane Explorer" excursion train ("Tshwane" is set to become the new name for the city of Pretoria... (more)

Germiston-based class 15CA No.2820 (North British Locomotive Co. / 1928) is working train 1220, the Denver pick-up, against a backdrop of gold mine dumps between Driehoek and Geldenhuis. This was ... (more)

Visiting US railfan Ron McElrath (in safety vest) looks on as a train of hoppers is loaded at Harmony Gold's Unisel shaft. The foreman who escorted us on our visit is boarding the locomotive to ha... (more)

The date is 18th July 1975 and after a long night shift in one of the area shunting yards, a South African Railways class 15F 4-8-2 steams into the Germiston locomotive depot at sunrise on a mid-w... (more)

A class GMAM garratt bursts out of tunnel no.6 with a freight train as it approaches the summit of the Montague Pass between George and Oudtshoorn. Since leaving the town of George, the train has ... (more)

With weekend maintenance in progress on the Manhattan-bound Local track of the No.7 Flushing-Main Street line, R77 GE diesel #892 waits with its work train alongside the platform at 103rd Street-R... (more)