35-435 departing Celdon with a load of grain bound for Cape Town with five locomotives at the head. Normal motive power for these trains is four locomotives so presume one of the Caledon shunt loc... (more)

Five 35 Class locomotives climb up to Botriver with a load of grain as the rain starts falling

Having just completed a trip on the PE to Uitenhage suburban service, this unit on lease to Metrorail runs around it's 10-car consist before getting ready to form a return trip to Port Elizabeth.

The Prasa test train that ran between Johannesburg and Cape Town and back to Johannesburg with a class 22 from TFR seen here through Tulbagh station. A class 44 diesel was added to the consist to ... (more)

The Blue Train speeds north here between Hermon and Gouda with 14108 leading. The class 14Es were eventually withdrawn from service after 2 of them caught fire.

A loaded ore train passes through Loop 7 heading into the setting sun at the end of another hot day in the Northern Cape.

Three class 15Es lead a short ore train west through this very dry area north of Vanrhynsdorp.

It is not often that one sees a single loco at the front of an empty ore train as was the case here with 15036 leading the train away from Saldanha back north.

Three class 35s run light through Liebendal siding outside Vredendal in the late afternoon sun to make a pickup at the Namaqua Sands plant north of Koekenaap.

An empty ore train swings around a big curve as it is busy leaving the run up the coast line from Saldanha heading in land back north to the mines.

A loaded ore train heads west into the late afternoon sun with 15063 bringing up the back.

The back end of an empty ore train slowly rolls past as it is busy crossing a loaded train in Loop 5 just to the left out of picture.

The back end of a loaded ore train passes through Strandfontein on the west coast with the front end already in Loop 3 just to the left in the distance by the big tower. From here the line follows... (more)

Two class 35s push slowly back to couple onto flat wagons loaded with granite blocks at Bitterfontein station which is the end of the branch line up the west coast. The granite blocks will be take... (more)

Three class 35s approach Vredendal in the late afternoon heading from the Klawer depot to the Namaqua Sands plant.