Doubleheading on Anglo Platinum's Rustenburg system is a rare occurrence. Leased AR&TS ex- CFM Mozambique GE U20C #053 teams up with Anglo Platinum's GE C30EMP #3001 to move a load of empty hopper... (more)

Boston South Station at the beginning of the afternoon peak, with F40PHM-2C #1027 about to depart from Track 6, while a MPI HSP46 #2026 waits its turn in the background on Track 11. Over on the le... (more)

The sun has just risen above the hills to the south of Heidelberg, as a quartet of 18E's cross the Blesbokspruit at 05:32, heading south on the Natcor (Natal Corridor) main line with a manganese t... (more)

After a few hours sleep, I left home at 02:45 and drove 300 km (186 miles) to arrive at this location just before the sun began to rise over the river. There was no sign of any trains on this doub... (more)

On a summer afternoon a matched set of five first series 18E's in Spoornet blue livery lead their train of empty coal wagons across the Blesbokspruit bridge, just north of Heidelberg station on th... (more)

The 34.5 km (21.4 miles) double track Yamanote line in Tokyo follows a circular route around the city with 29 stations. This train has just left Hamamatsucho station and is running counter-clockwi... (more)

Three colour schemes (Spoornet orange, Spoornet blue and SAR red) are represented in this lash-up of four class 34's, seen at Tarlton. Having run light engine from Millsite depot in Krugersdorp, t... (more)

Shosholoza Meyl's "Algoa" from Port Elizabeth is passing the classic semaphore Down main and Down loop starter signals at the south end of Heuningspruit station, as it heads north to Johannesburg ... (more)

Transnet's Phelophepa 2 health care train waits on the main line at Boons, while a 45-wagon container train snakes its way through the loop, westbound to Mafikeng. Like all the stations on this li... (more)

A few winter flowers, a bright red stop sign and a blue locomotive help to brighten up an otherwise drab winter landscape in the Sandveld region of the Free State, where the branch line to Wessels... (more)

An ALCO in a GE body perhaps? RRL Grindrod's RB201 (GE U12B, ex- SAR class 31-009) departs Niemandsland siding in Welkom with its train of loaded hoppers headed for the Harmony Gold exchange sidin... (more)

The daily weekday freight from Malmesbury to the PPC cement factory at De Hoek passes a small family graveyard as it nears the village of Koringberg (wheat mountain) in the heart of the "Swartland... (more)

Heuningspruit on the Free State main line is one of the last remaining stations in South Africa that evokes memories of country stations on the old South African Railways (SAR) and is also one of ... (more)

A Gautrain Bombardier Electrostar 4-car EMU is about to duck under the Plane Road bridge as it races downgrade past the cooling towers of the Kelvin power station, en route to Sandton from O.R.Tam... (more)

On a quiet Saturday afternoon, one of the newest class 6E1 to 18E rebuilds of series 2, sits in the Bijlcor Yard in Vereeniging, waiting for its next turn of duty. For a full description of the cl... (more)