Track workers standing aside as the train is passing through, which at the same time is hitting some gravel next to the line.
5 units pound round a bend with an empty ore train.
Interesting consist leading this empty ore train, an electric, a passenger car and 3 diesels which were working quite hard as is evident by the smoke.
An 18E electric unit and a Class 34 diesels (with a Class 36 in the middle) rest at the end of the day...
New track is being laid in the back, here empty ballast wagons are being pushed away to a siding behind.
E9019 leads an empty ore train out of the Orex yard at Saldanha, at this point it had still its pantograph down with diesels behind it doing all the work.
Today was my birthday and what better way to spend it than to go chase trains! Here 2 class 34s and class 9E electric pushes at the back of a very long empty ore train.
The new blue paint coats are still fresh on these two shunters. We'll probably soon see a new paint scheme (again), since Spoornet's name has recently been changed, this time to Transnet Freight ... (more)
A trio of GE Class 36-000's await their turn in front of the loco servicing shed.
Keeping a couple of the victims of the Moorreesburg derailment in June 2007 company (35-027 and 35-067). At the other end of the line is Class 14E 14-003, which has also been out of action for a ... (more)
Waiting its turn in front of the loco servicing shed.
A trio of Class 6E1's move out of Bellville Yard with the daily 15:00 northward bound goods train.
Smoke is pouring out of these 2 old girls as they accelerate over the hill through Cooper.
35-048 and 35-449 approach Bellville with the daily West Coast mixed goods train, mostly cement wagons from the PPC plant at Piketberg.
The daily trains between Voorbaai and Worcester normally cross here, at Swellendam or another siding just around the courner from here depending which train is where first and the crews also swop ... (more)
