The midday African sun beats down on CFM No.572 at a wayside halt on the ramshackle branch line from Inhambane. The little woodburner is in light steam - see the smoke curling from the firebox - a... (more)

In the gloom of the running shed at Germiston locomotive depot, an engine hand gets to work with the steam cleaning apparatus on a grimy class 15CA. The loco is in for a boiler washout as evidence... (more)

Railroad Development Corp. chairman Henry Posner III watches the track ahead as engineer Felipe Mario rolls his westbound freight towards Nampula late on a summer afternoon in Northern Mozambique.... (more)

Class 15F No.3046 "Janine" moves off shed at the Reefsteamers depot in Germiston, South Africa. Reefsteamers has half a dozen locos in its care, two of which are currently in working order. The cl... (more)

One of two surviving DE2 locomotives awaits restoration to running order at the Reefsteamers depot in Germiston. These classic cab units entered service with Rhodesia Railways in the 1950s and sol... (more)

Smoke and escaping steam fill the old running shed at Germiston locomotive depot as young Reefsteamers volunteers handle the cleaning chores on club's 12AR and 15F 4-8-2 locomotives. This was the ... (more)

The guard and trainee fireman (far right) gaze in wonderment at an engineering masterpiece named "Samson" which has paused with its train at Dungeness, the southern terminus on the 15-inch gauge R... (more)

Engineer Felipe Mario at the thottle of a westbound freight on the privately-operated Norte Corridor line from Nacala port in Mozambique to the landlocked country of Malawi. The loco shows the gri... (more)

A brace of Garratts raise steam ahead of the day's work on the yards at Bulawayo, one of Southern Africa's key rail junctions. The engine on the right is a class 16A freight loco, the Garratt on t... (more)

A shedman catches the first rays of the sun at Bulawayo engine shed as no fewer than six Garratt locomotives are prepared for the days' shunts. The loco nearest the camera is a 15th Class Garratt,... (more)

The red roof of the general dealer, the blue TransNamib locomotive and a couple of yellow containers are the only splashes of colour in the sun-bleached landscape south of Karasburg, Namibia

Narrow-gauge "Mikado" NG15 No.17 on the private 24-inch-gauge Sandstone Estates railroad

Class 8E electric no.6 waits for stablemate no.2 to clear the main line before shuttling a load of empty hoppers to Number Nine Shaft at Impala Platinum mine.

Rustenburg Platinum Mines GE C30 slogs upgrade to the Waterval reduction plant with a load of platinum ore. The locomotive belonged to Sheltam but was sold to the mine and is already in the livery... (more)

Reefsteamers' gutsy 12AR No.1535 "Susan" tackles the climb past Battery siding to Krugersdorp with a public holiday train. The 12AR, built in 1919, was reboilered in 1948, and is the last of its c... (more)