On the final day of the 2011 Aloe festival, a train conveying cyclists to Donnybrook winds its way through the spectacular scenary in the foothills of the Drakaneberg.

Reefsteamers Class 25NC, with a steam plume as long as her train approaches Sheridan siding with a train bound for Ficksburg. Just the way it was in steam days.

Fauresmith is the only town in South Africa where the railway runs down the middle of the main street. Regular steam had ended some years before this picture was taken, but the cars, coincidental... (more)

Friends of the Rails 1947-built berkshire departs from Cullinan on a cold, clear winter morning.

Built in 1915 the last remaining Class 12AR is currently having 8 boiler tubes replaced. She will then return to her duties as the mainstay of the Reefsteamers fleet of steam locomotives. This w... (more)

The Red Devil had just been restored when this picture of a northbound departure from Orange River Station was taken. Today the line is electrified and the semaphore signals replaced by CTC signa... (more)

Sisonke GMAM 4074 climbing to Donnybrook with the morning cyclist train during the Aloe Festival in Creigthon

No 3664 hauls her short goods train past the shed's main water tank about 20 minutes after sunrise.

Trailing a steam plume almost as long as the train, No 3016 pilots Class 25NC 4-8-4 No 3472. The train was operated by Reefsteamers and charted by Steam Loco Safaris.

The sky is filled with the exhaust of No 3664 as she rounds the bend into the Abattior Cutting about a kilometer from Cullinan Station

No 3334 hustles her mixed train from Porterville bound for Hermon on the Cape main line. The Grootwinterhoek Mountains constitute the backdrop.

One of the last opeating examples of South Africa's standard main line steam locomotive is seen in her home shed.

Arrival in the first rays of the sunrise during Reefsteamers Sunrise Photography event. During Steam Days, Germiston steam shed had a large allocation of 15Fs.

Double-heading was common on the old South African Railways, but seldom happened in 2007. This event was the highlight of steam operations in South Africa in 2007.

No 119 was once regular motive power on this 2 foot guage line. The folded mountains in the background were most likely formed by the colission of tectonic plates during the formation of the grea... (more)