Pacific National 8108 and GWA 701 pause at the north end of GWA's Dry Creek North Yard. 8108 had transferred empty GWA container flats from PN's Adelaide Freight Terminal.

SCT Forrestfield's yard shunt unit X47 shunts a bunch of wagons from the previous night's arrival of 5MP9 from Melbourne at Forrestfield.

an ex. NRZ class 15A as shunting locomotive in the Hwange coal mine, seen here No. 11 in a night-shot under the loading plant

Class 36 (200) diesel shunting locomotives (GM-EMD SW1002), 36-220 & 36-246, working sugar wagons around the top of one of the Bayhead yards. Slowly but surely these shunters in the old Spoornet "... (more)

Class 34 (600) Series, 34-649, is one of a 100 built by General Motors South Africa as Type GT26MC between 1974 and 1976 for South African Railways. With just on 40 years service now, she is pictu... (more)

RIP Louwtjie Coetzee.

Class 36 (200) diesel shunter, 36-214, working the yard just opposite the old Clairwood Racecourse. Designed by General Motors Electro Motive Division and built by General Motors South Africa as ... (more)

Class 33 (400), 33-491, was on shunt duty at De Aar in the Northern Cape when I visited in December 2010. Built in 1969 for South African Railways by General Electric as GE U20C, this locomotive ... (more)

Class 36 (200) diesel shunters, 36-238 (red Transnet Freight Rail livery) and 36-237 (orange Spoornet livery), are busy working one of the yards at Bayhead in Durban. Col André Kritzinger comment... (more)

Slowly but surely repaints into the red TFR (Transnet Freight Rail) livery of the older members of the locomotive fleet are taking place. 36-238 is a recent example of this, a Class 36 Diesel Shu... (more)

36-214 / 36-218 / Shunter Wagon “Natalspruit” / 36-240 along Maydon Wharf at the start of another busy day’s shunting for them. With reference to Col. André Kritzinger's Wikipedia referen... (more)

Class 36 (200) Diesel Shunters, 36-237 & 36-220, are pictured here at one of the entrances to the Bayhead Yard/s - the largest railway goods receiving and dispatching yard in Durban. With referen... (more)

Class 8E (centre cab electric shunting locomotive), E8056, is shunting a Type 5M Motor Coach around the big Metrorail yards, north of Durban Station. E8056 has made it through her entire working ... (more)

Class 8E centre cab electric shunting locomotives, E8090 & E8054, which entered service in 1983 (100 of them for SAR), are busy doing shunt work at Bayhead Yard, the largest freight yard in Durban... (more)

Class 34 (600) Series, 34-649, is one of a 100 built by General Motors South Africa as Type GT26MC between 1974 and 1976 for South African Railways. With just on 40 years service now, she is pict... (more)