The guard and trainee fireman (far right) gaze in wonderment at an engineering masterpiece named "Samson" which has paused with its train at Dungeness, the southern terminus on the 15-inch gauge R... (more)

The hiss of cutting torches fills the air as scrappers cut the remains of a former SAR steam locomotive at the site of an open-air railroad museum near Krugersdorp, South Africa. The locomotive wa... (more)

The Quiet American: Reefsteamers' Alco-built 15CA-class has its rear set of drivers dropped in preparation for turning on the depot's wheel lathe. The big Mountain will also have a new set of tube... (more)

A converted tractor leads a short tourist train up the Hex River Pass. The pass once carried the Cape Main Line from the verdant winelands over the mountains to the Karoo desert on the other side,... (more)

CEAR 509 about to depart for Blantyre with the Sunday passenger train from Nsanje. The train offers the only decent transport in a region where there are no all-weather roads and is well-patronise... (more)

A brace of Garratts raise steam ahead of the day's work on the yards at Bulawayo, one of Southern Africa's key rail junctions. The engine on the right is a class 16A freight loco, the Garratt on t... (more)

Railroad Development Corp. chairman Henry Posner III watches the track ahead as engineer Felipe Mario rolls his westbound freight towards Nampula late on a summer afternoon in Northern Mozambique.... (more)

Zambia Railways 12th class No.204 pauses with the Royal Livingstone Express at Sinde siding, near Victoria Falls, Zambia. The locomotive uncouples here and runs around the train and couples on the... (more)

The shunter watches with an eagle eye as Saiccor pulp mill's 70-year-old 19D locomotive eases over the ash pits for a bit of fire cleaning. On Tuesday 12 August, No.2's fire will be dropped for th... (more)

The red roof of the general dealer, the blue TransNamib locomotive and a couple of yellow containers are the only splashes of colour in the sun-bleached landscape south of Karasburg, Namibia

Class 12 No.204 about to depart with the Royal Livingstone Express dinner train which runs Sundays-only on the former Zambezi Sawmills Railway which once carried teak out of the forests near the m... (more)

The midday African sun beats down on CFM No.572 at a wayside halt on the ramshackle branch line from Inhambane. The little woodburner is in light steam - see the smoke curling from the firebox - a... (more)

Reefsteamers' gutsy 12AR No.1535 "Susan" tackles the climb past Battery siding to Krugersdorp with a public holiday train. The 12AR, built in 1919, was reboilered in 1948, and is the last of its c... (more)

A lash-up of six 19E dual voltage electric locomotives creeps into Ermelo yard with empty cars for the coal mines of South Africa's Highveld

An westbound oil train eases through the main station in Tblisi, Georgia, carrying black gold from the Caspian Sea oilfields. The Georgian Railway is a key link in in what is now-called the Iron S... (more)