Most passengers of the failed night train to Nairobi had left the train already and went on by local busses. A few, who couldn´t afford the higher bus fare, waited at the station for another dies... (more)

After RVR diesel locomotive 8740 had failed at Gilgil during the night with the Nairobi bound passenger train, 8723 arrives next morning at the station for help, giving the rare opportunity to tak... (more)

RVR diesel locomotive 8740 awaits rescue after having failed at Gilgil during the night with the Nairobi bound passenger train. It still waits at the station 5 hours later when we photographed the... (more)

RVR diesel locomotives 8723 + 8740 make photographers happy by jointly shunting at Gilgil Junction. Green vegetation covers the branch line to Nyahururu, still not officially closed but unused for... (more)

RVR diesel locomotives 8741 slowly proceeds over one of the numerous trestle bridges on the Nakuru-Kisumu line during the photographically most unrewarding time of the day - at lunch time. But hav... (more)

Kenya Railways / RVR diesel locomotives 9310 + 9322 ease their way downhill, having just passed Equator station, hauling a freight from Uganda to Nairobi and on to the port of Mombasa. © www.tana... (more)

RVR´s ageing diesel 8723 waits at Gilgil station to couple onto its waiting train. The class 87 was built by English Electric from 1960 to 1966 with only 4 locomotives of that class being in dail... (more)

Early morning at the Sandstone Farm in South Africa: NG15 #17 performs a runpast in the wonderful African light during the Sandstone Steam Gala event. NG15 #17 was built by Henschel in Kassel/Germ... (more)

The Cosmos flower is in full blossom in April while a narrow gauge former SAR class NG15 hauls a photographers´ special during the Sandstone Steam Gala event. The class NG125s were built by Hensc... (more)

A sunny day at the Shibanxi narrow gauge line in Southern China! Once a hidden gem, the railroad becomes more and more popular with tourists now: both railfans and "normal" tourists from nearby Ch... (more)

A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the Beitai steel mill. Here SY1561, built at the Tangshan locomotive factory in 1987 (!... (more)

A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the Beitai steel mill where SY0946, built at the Tangshan locomotive factory in 1975, w... (more)

A once common scene in Western countries, now only to be seen in China: regular, every-day steam shunting at the slag pit of the Beitai steel mill in China´s Liaoning province. Immediately after ... (more)

One of the ubiquitous Chinese C2-type narrow gauge steam locomotives is #7 of the Jiayang Coal Mining Administration, stopping here on at Caiziba halt with one of the scheduled daily passenger tra... (more)

National Railways of Zimbabwe NRZ Garratt 15A395 with a charter train running from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls. © www.tanago.de