On the Gold One system near Randfontein, one of Sheltam's ex- South African Railways class 33-200 locomotives # 33-216 (EMD GL26MC), is running long hood forward as it leaves Mid-load junction to ... (more)

A combine harvester is at work in the fields near the small town of Koringberg (Wheat Mountain), as the Mondays to Fridays Malmesbury - De Hoek freight rolls by, passing a small family graveyard i... (more)

A Mafikeng - Krugersdorp freight, mostly containers with some grain wagons tacked on the back, powers up one of the many grades on this rollercoaster line. The white signboard on the right is a wa... (more)

Quite unusually for a highveld winters day, a thunderstorm is brewing in the background, as a pair of class 36 GE SG10B's wearing the Spoornet orange and blue liveries, haul a long string of petro... (more)

On a cool autumn morning, Friends of the Rail's class 19D 4-8-2 with 12-wheeled Vanderbilt tender is shunting an open type DZ wagon at Capital Park depot. In steam days the 19D's were affectionate... (more)

An eastbound train of 48 loaded soda ash wagons from the Botswana Ash mine at Sua Pan, snakes its way down the grade into the town of Zeerust, with six ageing class 34 GE U26C's in charge. Photo t... (more)

New York City's first snowfall of 2017 envelops a pair of No.1 trains meeting at Dyckman Street in the Inwood section of Manhattan, on the IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue line.

At Sekonyela, east of Ficksburg, the early morning sunlight greets Transnet's 18-car Phelophepa health care train. The two class 34 GE's in Spoornet orange livery are working hard to haul the trai... (more)

After waiting patiently for the rising sun to reach the tracks, Friends of the Rail's class 24 # 3664 performs the first runby of the day on a beautifully cold and clear winter morning with a typi... (more)

A very grubby 40-year old Class 6E leads a Class 6E1 while working the Phelophepa 1 health care train on a repositioning move from Ficksburg to Kroonstad. The differences between the bogies of the... (more)

Amtrak's first weekday southbound train from Albany to New York City, is running through Metro-North's Harlem-125th Street station at 7:04am, inbound to Grand Central Terminal. The passenger in th... (more)

Westbound trains from Caledon to Belville (Cape Town) face a stiff climb from Botrivier (Butter River) up the Houhoek Pass, across the Houhoek Mountains. Three TFR class 35 GE's are seen hugging t... (more)

A pair of Kroonstad based class 34-400's are working a late running mixed freight of grain wagons and butane and propylene tankers from Kroonstad to Sasolburg, seen just south of the old Greenland... (more)

A visit by the Electric Railroaders Association to Metro-North's Croton-Harmon shops on April 22nd 2017 found Brookville BL20GH #112 and GE P32AC-DM #205 undergoing routine maintenance.

A 100-wagon train of iron ore from the Northern Cape mines on its way to Arcelor Mital's steelworks at Vanderbijlpark, is approaching Klipdrif on the Potchefstroom - Houtheuwel link line. Four 10E... (more)