Looking for all the world like it was 1972, this preserved GMAM hauls her train upgrade from Albert Falls towards Pietermaritsburg. She is still operated by Creighton Municipality.

Cityview was a favourite location for rail photography in South Africa into the early 1970s when these behemoths hauled a parade of trains around this horseshoe curve. Double-heading was not unco... (more)

Maureen is the oldest Cape Gauge Locomotive still in nominal working order. She is operated by Umgeni Steam Railways and should soon be working trains again. This railway is a part of the origin... (more)

In 1989 the Sun City Express was introduced by hotel group Sun International in conjunction with SATS (South African Transport Services), to provide a rail service between Johannesburg, Pretoria a... (more)

The sun rises on Class 19D No 2669 the classic SAR branch line locomotive pilots Sizonke Stimela's Class GMAM on the climb to Donnyrook.

Vintage South African Railway diesel traction. SAR Class 32-000 diesel locomotives, built by General Electric as type U18C1, 32-021 & 32-094, represent 2 examples of a total of 115 of this class, ... (more)

Saiccor No. 3, ex South African Railway Class 19D (4-8-2) No. 2767, running with her generator car (for airbrake loads) / tender first and empty timber wagons down to the Timber Exchange Yard from... (more)

What you see here is the sad remains of part of what was once a busy and vibrant operation of the South African Railways, and in later years Alfred County Railway and the Banana Express - the two ... (more)

Only about 6 months left of steam at Saiccor now before diesel replacement! The last working steam operations (non preservation) in South Africa. Saiccor No. 3 (Ex SAR Class 19D No. 2767) - Leavi... (more)

Our chartered train rounds the oft photographed curve near the Zulu village of Mjila on the rugged and never completed Cape Natal line. At first glance Garratt locomotives look strange to America... (more)

Class 7 locomotive of the type used on the first construction train to visit Riversdal on 3 December 1903 when the railway line between Ashton and Mossel Bay was built for the old NCCR company.

Saiccor No. 3, ex South African Railway Class 19D (4-8-2), No. 2767, leaving the Exchange Yard at Umkomaas on the KwaZulu Natal South Coast yard with a load of 11 STJ (Timber) Wagons for the short... (more)

Dieselloc from the TransNamib Railway Museum at the railway station Windhoek in the morning sun

A class 6E1 Bo-Bo 3kV electric in original South African Railways red livery, hauls a "pick-up" (wayside) freight northwards across the Vaal River at Fourteen Streams. The 2nd and 4th wagons are c... (more)

Former SAR NG15-class "Kalahari" number 119 steams across the high Van Stadens River bridge with a train bound for Assegaaibos in the Langkloof. It is a 300-foot drop to the river below. Trains ha... (more)