A pair of class 6E1's in Spoornet orange livery, E1235 & E1230, approach Arbor station with an eastbound block load of empty timber wagons (note the different pantographs on the two locomotives). ... (more)
Four class 18E's (rebuilt from 6E1's) head east through Dryden on a block load of coal empties, returning to the mines near Witbank.
Shortly after sunrise, three class 6E1's led by E1579, run through Arbor station with a westbound block load of coal. It is two years since the semaphore signals here were replaced with colour lig... (more)
On a cold sunny winter morning, Friends of the Rail's ex-SAR class 24 2-8-4 moves off shed to do some shunting in the yard.
The "month-end Fridays only" Shosholoza Meyl "Tourism" from Johannesburg to East London is seen southbound near Meyerton behind class 6E1 E1593 in original SAR red livery. The train is ferrying tw... (more)
Class 6E1 E1353 is seen leaving Rooiwal on Easter Monday morning, working a holiday extra from East London to Johannesburg. The load consists of passenger cars in the old Spoornet blue & grey live... (more)
The Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg "Tourism", speeds north on the Free State main line between Serfontein and Rooiwal behind Class 6E1 E1616, still sporting its original South African Railways red... (more)
The fireman of class 24 3664 hands the oil can down to his driver during a break between shunting moves at Capital Park. This locomotive is in the care of Friends of the Rail club members.
