The sun is setting as the two standard mainline engines of South Africa, a 15F 4-8-2 and a 25NC 4-8-4 team up to haul our heavy tour train towards Bethlehem, on the old Bloemfontein to Bethlehem m... (more)
SP 4449 is on hits way home after participating in the 50th Anniversary celebration for Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. It has passed thru Weed and Climbing toward Grass Lake.
It's unlikely that this Zulu family has ever seen a GMAM Garratt before. Thirty three years after steam ended in Natal, it has returned to its old stomping grounds on the steeply graded Durban to... (more)