CalTrain MPI MP36PH-3C 3 #928 and F40PH-2C #922 at San at the San Francisco Station on a sunny February morning in 2018.

The shunter watches with an eagle eye as Saiccor pulp mill's 70-year-old 19D locomotive eases over the ash pits for a bit of fire cleaning. On Tuesday 12 August, No.2's fire will be dropped for th... (more)

The Quiet American: Reefsteamers' Alco-built 15CA-class has its rear set of drivers dropped in preparation for turning on the depot's wheel lathe. The big Mountain will also have a new set of tube... (more)

Sappi Saiccor's No.3 hisses away peacefully the cacophony of the paper mill while the fitters try solve a problem with the reverser. The worker on the right is lost in the magic of his cell phone ... (more)

An westbound oil train eases through the main station in Tblisi, Georgia, carrying black gold from the Caspian Sea oilfields. The Georgian Railway is a key link in in what is now-called the Iron S... (more)

A converted tractor leads a short tourist train up the Hex River Pass. The pass once carried the Cape Main Line from the verdant winelands over the mountains to the Karoo desert on the other side,... (more)

Class 12 No.204 about to depart with the Royal Livingstone Express dinner train which runs Sundays-only on the former Zambezi Sawmills Railway which once carried teak out of the forests near the m... (more)

Former SAR NG15-class "Kalahari" number 119 steams across the high Van Stadens River bridge with a train bound for Assegaaibos in the Langkloof. It is a 300-foot drop to the river below. Trains ha... (more)

Zambia Railways 12th class No.204 pauses with the Royal Livingstone Express at Sinde siding, near Victoria Falls, Zambia. The locomotive uncouples here and runs around the train and couples on the... (more)

A freshly-painted class 34 is framed by the latticework of the overbridge at Rosmead junction in the Eastern Cape on a quiet Saturday afternoon. Although the section is electrified at 25kV ac, the... (more)

A single 7E is enough power to haul this string of grain empties into the late afternoon in the Karoo desert

More than a century after it worked the steep grades through the Amatongas Forest on the 24-inch Beira Railway, "Lawley" No.97 is once more the belle of the ball, wreathed in steam while... (more)

A tired and grimy fitter takes a smoke break on the footplate as the crew of "Kalahari" No.17 shunt an early morning charter freight

Africa's oldest working electric locomotives still put in a hard day's work hauling coal from BHP Billiton's Middelburg coal mine to fire the huge boilers at the Duvha power station which can be s... (more)

A lash-up of six 19E dual voltage electric locomotives creeps into Ermelo yard with empty cars for the coal mines of South Africa's Highveld