Diesel smoke hangs in the air as these four EMD class 39-200's cross the Lakenspruit and open up for the steep climb out of the valley with their train of chrome ore heading to the junction at Bel... (more)

A dry and dusty winters day is drawing to a close as Anglo Platinum's C30EMP #3002 climbs the grade to Entabeni siding with 13 loaded wagons from Thembelani Mine.

With weekend maintenance in progress on the Manhattan-bound Local track of the No.7 Flushing-Main Street line, this Local is running on the Express track to bypass the maintenance occupation, appr... (more)

Four class 34 GE U26C's heading through Lucerne siding, westbound to Mafikeng with a block load of 50 container wagons. Although several refurbished / upgraded 34's in the Transnet Freight Rail li... (more)

Three class 34 GE U26C's in Spoornet blue, Spoornet orange and original SAR red liveries, team up to move a 45-wagon container train from Krugersdorp to Mafikeng, seen here emerging from a clump o... (more)

These class 34 GE U26C's are working hard to haul their train of 45 container wagons through the bushveld country around Swartruggens (black ridges), approaching the long closed station of Twyfels... (more)

Trains running south from Lydenburg to Belfast face a climb of 627 metres (2057 ft) in 68 km (42 miles) through mountainous terrain until they reach Nederhorst, the highest point on the railway sy... (more)

The rising sun catches Shosholoza Meyl's East London to Johannesburg "Amatola" running about 15 minutes ahead of time, as it races past the Glen Douglas Dolomite Quarry sidings and loadi... (more)

Transnet’s Phelophepa health care train is seen climbing a long grade between Ionia and Meynel, dwarfed by a backdrop of typical eastern Free State mountain scenery, with prominent sandstone cl... (more)

Just west of Fochville, a pair of 18E's in the TFR red livery are heading east along the Potchefstroom - Houtheuwel link line with a block load of bagged cement from Lichtenburg. The covered wagon... (more)

A morning of thick mist and swirling clouds eventually cleared to reveal clear blue sky, in time to catch this 75-wagon coal train behind five 18E's at Sprucewell, heading south towards Greylingst... (more)

Although the Free State main line south of Bloemfontein is single track and non-electrified, trains arriving or departing Springfontein travel "under the wires" for a short distance at the north e... (more)

Unusually for TFR, these two class 34-900's are coupled nose to tail, as they roll north across the grassland scrub of the southern Free State with cement empties from Queenstown, which are return... (more)

Fall colour provides the backdrop for a Metro North Hudson Line train from Poughkeepsie, as it runs along the north bank of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, heading towards Grand Central Terminal in Manhatta... (more)

A lone bird watches from above as a southbound container train heading to Durban crosses the Suikerbosrant (sugar bush ridge) river, between Spruytsrus and Fortuna, behind a trio of first series 1... (more)