Sunrise on a highveld winter morning. A South African Airways Airbus A340 is on final approach to O.R.Tambo International Airport, the passengers and crew no doubt oblivious to the steam action be... (more)
A little too late, but the fireman's hands tell it all....HOKAAI! (Stop!). Sandstone Heritage Trust's ex- SAR class GMAM garratt attempting to take water at Reefsteamers' Germiston depot, during a... (more)
I think that the broadside view works best when a steam locomotive is working tender-first.
Reefsteamers´s mighty Garratt GMAM #4079 was one of the four "big" engines under steam at the photographer´s event early Saturday morning. Worth getting up so early, don´t you think? © www.... (more)
Friends of the Rails two beautifully maintained classic SAR branch line locomotives approach the diamond town with the anniversary train.
Steam in the Eternal Hills
NGG16-88 was built in 1936 by Societe Cockerill Seraing with the builder number 3268. It is now based at the Sandstone Farm in South Africa. On a sunny autumn day it pulls its freight train for th... (more)
A train conveying cyclists from Creighton to Donnybrook winds its way up the steep climb on a perfect winters morning.
In an accurate re-creation of the steam era a mixed train passes a typical SAR watering point. The dressed stone road bridge in the background was build in the 1880s.
The broadside view shows the outsized tender that this 15F acquired from a class 23.
The berkshire, operated by Friends of the Rail is silhouetted in her own steam.
The GEA was the standard motive power on this line until displaced by the GMAMs during the 1970s.
The tempreature was well below freezing as Reefsteamers Class 25NC thunders past the photographer. The steam plume was longer than the train.
One of the ostriches that are kept in the grounds of Capital Park Locomotive Shed, confronts Friends of the Rail Class 19D and decides that discretion is the better part of valor!
The last train of the 2010-2011 season is seen on the climb from Magaliesburg. This is the only 15F currently in service in South Africa.
