With Bear Mountain in the right background, Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited from Chicago is making its way down the Hudson River to New York City's Grand Central Terminal, seen here crossing the cause... (more)

Four class 10E1 locomotives heading into the sunset with coal empties returning to the Witbank coalfields.

Four of the forty five class 11E Co-Co 25kV AC locomotives, built between 1985 and 1987 by General Motors South Africa, are approaching the east end of New Ermelo station with 200 empty coal wagon... (more)

Two hundred empty coal wagons are returning to the Mpumalanga coalfields from the port of Richards Bay, seen here just west of Overvaal station, heading towards Ermelo behind six dual voltage clas... (more)

Virtually all of the class 7E locomotives have been transferred away from the Ermelo - Richards Bay 25kV AC line and all the coal trains are now handled by class 11E and 19E locomotives. On a sunn... (more)

The swirling fog gives way to beautiful early morning light as an eastbound 100 wagon coal train waits at a red signal for a fresh crew to arrive from Ermelo by road. The nicely clean quartet of 1... (more)

Shortly before sunset, colourful locomotives with colourful containers in tow are approaching the town of Swartruggens, heading west to Mafikeng.

On the 26th June 2013 the PPC (Pretoria Portland Cement) factory at Slurry, 20km east of Mafikeng, celebrated its 100th year of production. The factory is linked by rail to the Transnet Freight Ra... (more)

After a five week stint providing medical services to the town of Mafikeng, Transnet's Phelophepa 2 health care train is on a repositioning move to Newcastle in kwaZulu-Natal. The train is seen ju... (more)

A westbound container train runs through the loop at Mazista siding near Swartruggens, while the Drivers Assistant of the opposing train looks on. The disc signal is connected to the point lever t... (more)

West of Ermelo on the 3kv DC section of the CoalLink line, a one hundred wagon train of coal empties with four 10E1's up front is heading off into the sunset, returning to one of the mines for ano... (more)

Forty five of the class 11E Co-Co 25kV AC locomotives were built between 1985 and 1987 by General Motors South Africa. They have a single cab and were specifically designed to operate over the Erm... (more)

Late on a winter afternoon three 10E1's in Spoornet blue livery, plus one in TFR red, climb the long grade out of the Klein Drinkwater river valley, heading west from Ermelo to the Witbank coalfie... (more)

Three of TFR's class 38 Bo-Bo electro-diesels are running in electric mode on the 3kV DC section of the CoalLink line west of Ermelo, returning empty coal wagons to the mines around Witbank. These... (more)

The class 19E dual voltage (3kV DC / 25kV AC) Co-Co electrics are one of the newest classes to enter service on Transnet Freight Rail in the last three years. Four of these locomotives, led by 19-... (more)