A rare sight indeed! A Premier Classe set belonging to passenger operator Shosholoza Meyl, runs along the Indian Ocean coast and crosses the Illovo River, just north of Illovo Beach station. The t... (more)

The sun is about to set as an out of service train of R142 cars climbs the grade through 219th Street station in the Bronx, on its way to the 239th Street Yard at the end of the 2/5 line. In the b... (more)

On March 10th, 2017 a quick late winter storm blew in and dumped wet snow across New York City... by evening, it was all over. In an idyllic setting on the IRT Dyre Avenue line, a No.5 Manhattan-b... (more)

The wheat fields of the Western Cape help to make Transnet Freight Rail's Caledon branch the most profitable line in the region. Three TFR class 35 GE's are working hard as they haul the maximum o... (more)

About an hour and a half after photographing this train at Peekskill heading north up the Hudson River (photo ID 383355), I caught it again on the return run to Croton-North, approaching the tunne... (more)

On the final leg of its journey from the western end of the Rustenburg Platinum Mines system, ex- Sheltam C30 no. 3007 is passing the junction for the "branch" to Frank Shaft, as it heads towards ... (more)

RRL Grindrod operates this ex-TFR class 36-200 at Welkom, for ore haulage from Friedesheim and Odendaalsrus to Showgrounds Exchange. Late on a Saturday afternoon, 36-01 is returning to Welkom with... (more)

On the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line, an Uptown No.1 train exits the Fort George tunnel at Dyckman Street into New York's first snowfall of 2017, welcomed by the warm glow of the platform lig... (more)

The class 19E dual voltage (3kV DC / 25kV AC) Co-Co electrics are one of the newest classes to enter service on Transnet Freight Rail in the last three years. Six 19E's are seen working a 200 wago... (more)

An afternoon of heavy overcast with dust storms and even some rain (in a region ravaged by severe drought), finally saw the sun dropping below the clouds shortly before sunset and just in time to ... (more)

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)

A Manhattan-bound N train from Ditmars Boulevard in Queens has left 30th Avenue station behind and is about to hit the short grade up to its next stop at Broadway. The elevated approach of Amtrak'... (more)

A sign of the times? There is no load for these Class 6E1's E1565 and E1678, running light engine through Dryden, with sister loco E1570 dead-in-tow. E1565 is wearing the Spoornet maroon/oxblood c... (more)

At sunrise on a cold winter morning, Anglogold Ashanti No.4 trundles along with its train of loaded hoppers, carrying gold-bearing ore to the reduction works at West Plant, just outside Orkney.

A week long 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 Bloemfontein... (more)