The eastern end of Harmony Gold's rail system is operated by Sheltam, based at the former Saaiplaas steam depot near Virginia. Sheltam no.18 is seen here loading reef at Masimong Mine's no. 5 shaf... (more)

The Class 36 entered service in 1975 as the SAR's standard diesel-electric shunting locomotive. This pair of 36's in Spoornet orange livery has spent several hours shunting the fuel depot at Tarlt... (more)

Daybreak in the Hudson River valley finds one of Amtrak's "training trains" heading south on Metro-North's Hudson line to New York City's Grand Central Terminal. These training runs oper... (more)

Ceres Rail Company's class 19B 4-8-2 heads through Paarl station, on its way to its home base at Ceres and passing the old signal cabin that quite incredibly, still controls the semaphore signals ... (more)

Friends of the Rail's class 19D 4-8-2 with 12-wheeled Vanderbilt tender has its fire cleaned at Capital Park depot.

The rising sun broke through the clouds just in time for this shot of Class 34's 34-089 & 34-121 climbing the long grade out of Boons, heading east to Krugersdorp with a container train from Mafik... (more)

With 20 loaded hoppers in tow, ex- Sheltam C30 no.3008 marches up the grade through Paardekraal cutting on the Rustenburg Platinum Mines main line, heading to Waterval Plant. The town of Rustenbur... (more)

Rovos Rail's ex- South African Railways class 19D 4-8-2 hauls the Pretoria - Cape Town train out of the yard at Capital Park, to place it alongside the platform for passenger boarding. The semapho... (more)

The privately owned Keikyu Corporation (previously Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. Ltd.) operates a variety of EMU's on their standard gauge system with 1 500 volt DC overhead power supply. On... (more)

Not even the new Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) livery can help to improve the look of TFR's 'ugly duckling' class 38 electro-diesel. Here we see 38-007 teamed up with 38-041 in Spoornet blue and 38-... (more)

On a beautiful cool, clear winter morning African Rail & Traction Services no. 053 crosses the Hex River with a train of loaded hoppers, heading to the processing plant at Waterval, while a minibu... (more)

The recommissioning of Harmony Gold #2 (renumbered from #8) included a repaint in an eyecatching bright red livery. Here #2 smokes it up while hauling empties from Harmony One Plant to the exchang... (more)

Shortly after sunrise on a spring morning, Rovos Rail's Cape Town to Pretoria train is reflected in a small farm dam as it heads east along the Potchefstroom - Houtheuwel link line. Two grubby cla... (more)

The Cape Town - Johannesburg "Premier Classe" is 42 km from its final destination, as it passes Rand Uranium's large mine dump between Robinson and Millsite. The dump is being processed to extract... (more)

On an otherwise gloomy day with heavy overcast and rain, a break in the cloud shortly before sunset provided enough light to silhouette a transfer freight crossing the Raritan River at Perth Amboy... (more)