Late afternoon and Saiccor No.3, ex South African Railway Class 19D, No. 2767 (4-8-2), has cleared the exchange yard of timber and is about to make her way back up to the mill. Until the delivery ... (more)

E25 in profile. Covered in dust and in very poor condition now, E25 is one of two remaining examples of the Class 1E electric locomotive. South African Railways electric motive power history if ... (more)

Class GEA Garrat locomotive outside the Outeniqua Transport Museum in George with a Class 36 shunter loco in the back.

On Saturday 6th May 1989, the Kei Explorer is hauled by double headed 15AR Class engines 2093 and 2100. There is also a 19D engine on the rear as a push up engine. This a well organised 14 day ste... (more)

St Helena Gold Mine No 6 is a 3 feet 6 inch gauge 4-6-2 Pacific. Seen on a train of coal for loco use, between the SAR exchange yard and the loco depot in 1996. Note the 3 men riding on the coal!

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)

Friend of the Rails classic SAR branch line locomotive poses for photographers at the beginning of the FotR annual Steam Photography weekend.

Reefsteamers Class 15F, the only operating member of her class enters her running shed in the old SAR Steam Running Shed.

This was the last run of the Aloe Festival Special between Creighton and Riverside on the only section of this railway that is still in operation.

South African Superpower. This was the most modern of South African Steam locomotives and the last of the class were delivered in 1957. They were the standard motive power on this line until rep... (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)

SAPPI's ex-SAR class 19D collects a load of timber destined for the paper mill. Transnet Freight Rail bring in the timber to the exchange yard where the mill's 19D collects them. This is South Afr... (more)

Sappi Saiccor's No.3 hisses away peacefully the cacophony of the paper mill while the fitters try solve a problem with the reverser. The worker on the right is lost in the magic of his cell phone ... (more)

Saiccor No. 3, ex SAR Class 19D No. 2767, has picked up her load of timber nicely now and settled down into a smart rhythm for the short run up to the mill from the Timber Exchange Yard at Umkomaa... (more)

Saiccor No. 2, ex SAR Class 19D No. 2633, is about to leave the Timber Exchange Yard at Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast for the short haul up to the mill with a load of 11 timber wagons.... (more)