One of ONCF,S new Alstom Prima locos heads a southbound express south of Sidi Kacem to Meknes .

National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) Garratt 15A395 shunts its train on a clear morning at Thomson Junction yard. 15A395 is normally used for shunting at Bulawayo, Zimbabwe´s only remaining steam ... (more)

Picture taken in South Africa - the Maluti Mountains in the background are in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho.

Reminiscent of regular operations in steam days, No. 3472 hauls her train trough the S-bend above Slabbers Station shortly after dawn. The tempreature was below 0 degrees centigrade.

Class 15F 3046 leading 25 class 3472 as they drift into Slabert's on there way to Ficksburg for the Cherry festival.

The distinctive sandstone outcrop at Sekonyela, a well known landmark that has featured in hundreds of railfan photographs, towers over Transnet's Phelophepa health care train as it passes by, hea... (more)

Reefsteamers runs regular trips to Magaliesburg on weekends. These are very popular and usually fully booked. No 3046 was out on her second revenue-earning journey since restoration.

During the 1930 the class 23s with their outsized tenders (9500 gallons) worked this arrid line. They were succeeded in the 1950s by the ultimate SAR steam locomotive, the Class 25 Condensing loc... (more)

This engine was the only 25NC that was fitted with a double Lempor exhaust. She is seen storming past a rather handsome classic SAR semphore signal.

A Steam Loco Safaris charter passes some traditional Zulu huts and a display of aloes on the steep climb to Donnybrook.

Most South African Railways steam locomotives were painted black. 3016 was an exception. She was painted dark blue in the early 1990s and Reefsteamers continues to operate her in this colour. H... (more)

Although it was four years after regular steam operations ended on the Kimberley-De Aar line, a then sympathetic Railway Administration allowed the occasional freight to be worked by preserved ste... (more)

Recently restored to working order, this example of the 119 GMAM garratts that worked on the SAR shows her huge boiler, articulated with two engine units, both with rods down. The engine weighs 1... (more)

The 25 members of the South African Railways Class GO Garratt Locomotive spent most of their lives hauling chrome ore trains up the escarpment from Steelpoort to Lydenberg in the Eastern part of t... (more)

The SAR 16DA 879 Pacific locomotive helped by a 15CA is leaving the Hercules station with a passenger train.