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A few line side photographs of Atlantic Rails trip to Simons Town on what was a surprisingly sunny and rain-free day in cold Cape Town. The locomotive in use was newly restored Class 16DA No.879 - named 'Katie.' 29 June 2014.

A few photographs from this past weekend of Reefsteamers' class 12AR No.1535, which Reefsteamers kindly allowed FotR to use while repairs are carried out to 19D No.2650.

During last years photo session held at the depot; this ghostly fireman goes about his work of oiling. Looks like Fireman Ted is missing too ;)

Some photos I took a while back.

Was playing around with a photo editing programme at home and managed to edit some of these:

Photos by Tony Attwell

Hi all,

Some photos from the previous photo gala.

May be in Cape Town over that period of time so it would be great to see some steam action down in Cape Town, well done FoAR!!

The Big Green beast was back in steam on Sunday and what a sight was this GMAM No. 4079! Steam power at its best....

After chasing the Phelophepha we headed off to Welkom were we found ex-sar class 31-001 "spotty" hard at work on the mine system, next it was off to Harmony and the RRL where the class 91's were seen.

Two weeks back I had the oppertunity of photographing the Phelophepa, the Health train. The photos were taken along the Bethlehem - Bloemfontein line, the once famouse line for its 25's. This line now hardly see's any traffic.

Very, very, very sad! But I think the best thing to do is to scrap the locos at chamdor to raise funds for moving the locos at the south and north site to Reefsteamers. Coaches such as the one Drakensberg coah (guards van), west vaal ( I think) and other "good" condition coaches saved. But what ...

2650 stands at Hermanstad before shunting and departing for Cullinan.

Fireman John and Trainee driver Tony from Sunday.

and some more...........

Myself, Tony Attwell and Jade Wilson looked after 2650 on saturday evening. Orders where to clean the bottom half of 2650, ie. the wheels etc. This gave me the chance to try night photography for the first time.