On the final day of the 2011 Aloe festival, a train conveying cyclists to Donnybrook winds its way through the spectacular scenary in the foothills of the Drakaneberg.
Reefsteamers Class 25NC, with a steam plume as long as her train approaches Sheridan siding with a train bound for Ficksburg. Just the way it was in steam days.
Fauresmith is the only town in South Africa where the railway runs down the middle of the main street. Regular steam had ended some years before this picture was taken, but the cars, coincidental... (more)