A pair of class 35-200's in Spoornet blue livery, make a smokey departure from Ficksburg with Transnet's 18-coach Phelophepa health care train. The train is on a repositioning move to Harrismith.

The orange locomotives and purple passenger coaches of the Cape Town - Johannesburg "Premier Classe" contrast vividly with the dry winter grasses of the South African Highveld. The train has just ... (more)

After a day of rain and heavy overcast, I could not ask Mother Nature for a more spectacular way to end off my photography for 2016. On the North Jersey Coast Line, one of NJ Transit's ALP-45DP lo... (more)

Trains carrying iron ore from the mines in the Northern Cape run via the Potchefstroom - Houtheuwel link line, to reach one of two ArcelorMittal steelworks, either in Vanderbijlpark, or in Newcast... (more)

Amtrak Breakfast Sandwich! Train #63, the Maple Leaf to Toronto, was the first Amtrak departure of the day out of GCT, during a summer that saw service diverted from Penn Station to Grand Central,... (more)

Running long hood forward on this trip, Sheltam no.5 kicks up dust as it heads back up to Millsite from Cooke Plant with empty hoppers which will be exchanged for full ones.

With dawn breaking over Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, a Manhattan-bound F train heads down the ramp from Smith-9th Street station, into the tunnel that will take it underground through four more s... (more)

A signal check at Andrea junction for the late running Cape Town - Johannesburg "Premier Classe" doesn't help these 6E1's to make up lost time. This is the junction for the branch to Coligny and L... (more)

Sunrise on a beautiful crisp, clear winter morning finds Friends of the Rail's (FOTR) ex-South African Railways class 24 no.3664 making a spirited departure from the small FOTR yard at Capital Par... (more)

The rising sun lights up Transnet's Phelophepa health care train as it passes the grain silos at Schuttesdraai. The Phelophepa is making a rare appearance on this branch line, as it heads south to... (more)

A week long maintenance closure of the Cape main line between De Aar and Kimberley resulted in the luxury Blue Train (as well as Rovos Rail and the Premier Classe) being rerouted via Noupoort and ... (more)

Sunrise at Oberholzer, and the green signal gives the first Metrorail train of the day a clear road ahead as it departs to Johannesburg at 06:50.

The sun has set and a northwest wind is bringing in the clouds, as an IRT Flushing line no.7 train makes its way down the hill from 52nd Street, passing the statues of the Saint Sebastian Catholic... (more)

A fleet of 20 of these Class 39-200 (EMD GT26CU-3) locomotives is based at Lydenburg to handle the traffic on the Belfast - Steelpoort branch line. On a beautiful late winter morning, four of thes... (more)

The sun is about to rise over Queens as a Flushing-bound No.7 Local follows its reflection out of Queensboro Plaza station, heading towards its next stop at 33rd Street.