FOTR Photo Weekend Part II

Afternoon shots near Montrose on the Cullinan branch and some night shots in Cullinan station – 13/06/2015

FOTR Photo Weekend Part 1

19D 2650 during a crisp morning session at Capital Park as part of the FOTR annual photo weekend trip to Cullinan – 13/06/2015

Friends of the Rail photo weekend – May 2014

Some photos of Friends of the Rail 19D 2650 taken during their annual photo weekend in May 2014. The shots are from their depot in Capital Park and on the Cullinan branch north of Pretoria with a typical mixed train that used to run on that branch. This year was not a good a previous years as it was still fairly warm on the Sunday morning.

SAR Steam Tours November Tour – First leg to Cullinan

Things have been a bit quiet on the blog recently as I have been very busy at Reefsteamers upgrading our sleeper train set for the SAR steam tours ( http://www.sarsteamtours.com/ ) and crewing the tour in mid-November. Here are a selection of photographs of the first leg of the tour visiting Friends of the Rail at Hermanstad and having day on the Cullinan branch with their 24 class 3664 on a short mixed. Please visit SAR steam tour’s website for exciting upcoming steam tours.

Friends of the Rail spring day double header 1st September 2013

Friends of the Rail double headed their trip to Cullinan on the 1st September spring day due to the large passenger demand. Double headed steam trains are extremely rare in the preservation operation. Ironic that spring day fell on one of the coldest weekends in Gauteng this year.

FOTR Cullinan photo weekend – morning session 16/06/2013

The next morning we were out early on the branch for early morning light with out short mixed train. Interestingly the silver wagon behind the locomotive is one of the original milk cooler wagons. These worked by having water tanks on the top with the water trickling down the sides that are filled with charcoal, the wind blowing through the sides cooled the contents.

FOTR Photo weekend – Night session Cullinan

The class 24 was positioned in Cullinan station for some floodlight night photography

FOTR Cullinan photo weekend – Afternoon session 15/06/2013

The afternoon session with FOTR class 24 3664 started at Montrose on the Cullinan branch and we worked our way to Cullinan and back to Montrose for the final shots of the day

FOTR Cullinan photo weekend – morning session Capital park

Friends of the Rail held their Cullinan photo weekend on the 15/16 June 2013. These photos are from the morning session at their base in Capital park Pretoria. Featuring their their 19D 2650 and a brief appearance of 24 class 3664 departing with our photo train to Rayton.