The remarkable sight of five ex South African Railway two foot guage steam locomotives in one lashup. With one conventional locomotive and four garratt locomitives, that makes for 9 sets of dri... (more)

As a result of a SPAD infringement these two 10M5 commuter sets rubbed noses at New Durban Yard. PRASA / Metrorail are the National and only suburban commuter operator in South Africa.

Just 5 miles after the first derailment, the weekly Makhanga to Limbe passenger train has come to grief again - this time t... (more)

This Steam and Safaris Charter train has just completed the climb from Tierkranz via 8th and 7th Reverses. 8th Reverse is clearly seen in the middle distance on the right. The line was closed in... (more)

National Railways of Zimbabawe Garratt steam locomotive #512 leads a special as it crosses the Zimbabawe River from Zimbabwe to Zambia, Africa. The mist from the famous Victoria Falls behind the c... (more)

A daily Casablanca - Oujda service (a 10 hour trip across Morocco), hauled by a DH 370 (EMD GT26CW-2), is crossing one of the new bridges near lake Idriss 1er. The lake is only a few years old, an... (more)

Down on the coast it's the rainy season - warm and wet - but above the clouds in the mountains near Asmara it's cool and dry. In these perfect conditions for steam loco photography, a charter frei... (more)

UP 844 take the Little Rock Express across the MacArthur Bridge and over the East Saint Louis Fire Dept.

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)

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)

The Garratts of the class 59 of the East African Railways were the largest narrow gauge locomotives ever built. The 34 "Mountain" class (all with names of african mountains) locomotives were built... (more)

About 25 metres long Garratt 16A 613 (first number 645, built by Beyer Peacock in 1953 for the Rhodesia Railways) on the turntable of Bulawayo steam shed.

Garratt # 12 of the Hwange Colliery (the former 15A 370 of National Railways of Zimbabwe) is leaving the coal mine with a heavy train to Thomson Junction shunting yard.

Garratt # 12 of the Hwange Colliery, the former 15A 370 of National Railways of Zimbabwe (Beyer Peacock 1948), with a coal train in front of the impressive industrial complex of the mine.