The Red Devil had just been restored when this picture of a northbound departure from Orange River Station was taken. Today the line is electrified and the semaphore signals replaced by CTC signa... (more)

One of the early batch of the standard mixed traffic main line steam locomotives of the South African Railways departs from Koornburg with a mixed train bound for Malmesbury.

Randfontein Estates Gold Mine maintained a fleet of ex South African Railways class GMAM Garratt locomitives to haul 1000 ton gold ore trains from their shafts to the reduction plants. This spect... (more)

No 3664 hauls her short goods train past the shed's main water tank about 20 minutes after sunrise.

Trailing a steam plume almost as long as the train, No 3016 pilots Class 25NC 4-8-4 No 3472. The train was operated by Reefsteamers and charted by Steam Loco Safaris.

The sky is filled with the exhaust of No 3664 as she rounds the bend into the Abattior Cutting about a kilometer from Cullinan Station

No 3334 hustles her mixed train from Porterville bound for Hermon on the Cape main line. The Grootwinterhoek Mountains constitute the backdrop.

One of the last opeating examples of South Africa's standard main line steam locomotive is seen in her home shed.

Arrival in the first rays of the sunrise during Reefsteamers Sunrise Photography event. During Steam Days, Germiston steam shed had a large allocation of 15Fs.

Double-heading was common on the old South African Railways, but seldom happened in 2007. This event was the highlight of steam operations in South Africa in 2007.

No 119 was once regular motive power on this 2 foot guage line. The folded mountains in the background were most likely formed by the colission of tectonic plates during the formation of the grea... (more)

No 2640 trundles over the long causeway on Knysna Lagoon on a beautiful morning in the early autumn.

No 3635 pilots Class 19D No 2698 across a bridge that was built in 1906. In 2001 this line was closed, but with the discovery of new coal deposites in the area there are plans to re-open the line... (more)

The last working example of her class crosses the Swartvlei about 30 minutes after sunset.

Friends of the Rail Class 24 is serviced at the locomotive service point at Cullinan Station.