Reefsteamers preserved Class 25NC storms through Slabberts Station in the first rays of the sun.
Reefsteamers operated this photo charter for Steam Loco Safaris, and is an accurate re-creation of steam operations on this line that ended in the late 1980s.
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.
Reefsteamers Class 25NC hauls her photocharter over the Meulspruit Bridge, a typical South African Railways girder bridge, sutuated just west of the Free State town of Ficksburg. This was an accu... (more)
The tempreature was well below freezing as Reefsteamers Class 25NC thunders past the photographer. The steam plume was longer than the train.
Picture taken in South Africa - the Maluti Mountains in the background are in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho.
The sun has just risen on this photo special as she storms into the picture in the shadow of the red sandstone formations that dominate this area.
This is an accurate recreation of steam operations on this line during the 1970s and 1980s.
This modern 4-8-4, built in the early 1950s powers her train into Fouriesburg Station on a cold winters morning
Glinting in the last rays of the sun, the Sekonyela koppie on the left, No 3472 hurries her train towards Vailima Siding on Sandstone Estates
This magnificent machine is maintained in running order by Reefsteamers and is seen storming past a maize field that was indeed a polo crosse field during the 1980s. The tempreature had only just... (more)