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SAR Class 6E E1189
Title:  SAR Class 6E E1189
Description:  In 1970 and 1971 the South African Railways placed eighty Class 6E Zlectric locomotives in majnline service, numbered in the range from E1146 to E1225. Two more were built for the Sishen iron ore mine. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by Associated Electrical Industries and English Electric. Compared to the Class 5E1, the Class 6E had improved traction motors and was equipped with electronic wheel slip detection.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 6E.
Photo Date:  1/22/2007  Upload Date: 3/6/2009 3:16:00 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col An`ré Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E1189(6E)
Views:  400   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-040
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-040
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  1/22/2007  Upload Date: 3/2/2009 7:59:48 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-040(U15C)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-019
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-019
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  1/22/2007  Upload Date: 4/27/2007 3:12:29 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-019(U15C)
Views:  479   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-400 35-408
Title:  SAR Class 35-400 35-408
Description:  Between March 1976 and May 1980 the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 35-400 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service, numbered in the range from 35-401 to 35-500. Designed by General Electric, they were built in two batches by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl).
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-400.
Photo Date:  1/22/2007  Upload Date: 3/2/2009 8:08:48 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-408(U15C)
Views:  510   Comments: 0
SAR Class 36-000 36-018
Title:  SAR Class 36-000 36-018
Description:  Between June 1975 and 1981 the South African Railways placed one hundred and twenty-four Class 36-000 GE SG10B diesel-electric locomotives in service, numbered in the range from 36-001 to 36-124. Designed by General Electric, they were built in three batches by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl). The first one hundred locomotives were delivered by September 1978, followed in 1981 by two batches of twenty and four locomotives respectively.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 36-000.
Photo Date:  1/22/2007  Upload Date: 3/2/2009 8:10:14 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 36-018(SG10B)
Views:  312   Comments: 0
SAR Class 5M Coach (Side A)
Title:  SAR Class 5M Coach (Side A)
Description:  Some third class Class 5M commuter coaches have three sets of driver controlled sliding doors, and a toilet at one end on the A side.

SAR Class 5M2A, SAR Type S-11-T, Built from 1975, Length over headstocks 60'3 5/8" (18.380m, or later models 18.545m), Height 12'0" (3.660m), Width 9'3" (2.820m).
Photo Date:  2/12/2007  Upload Date: 2/12/2007 6:54:44 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  301   Comments: 0
SAR Class 5M Coach (Side B)
Title:  SAR Class 5M Coach (Side B)
Description:  Some third class Class 5M commuter coaches have three sets of driver controlled sliding doors. The sliding doors on this coach have been modified to run on exterior rails instead of into door cavities in the coach sides. To hide the upper door rails, fascias were added to the full length of the coach roof on both sides.

SAR Class 5M2A, SAR Type S-11-T, Built from 1975, Length over headstocks 60'3 5/8" (18.380m, or later models 18.545m), Height 12'0" (3.660m), Width 9'3" (2.820m).
Photo Date:  2/12/2007  Upload Date: 1/26/2009 5:05:13 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  305   Comments: 0
SAR Class 5M Coach (Side A)
Title:  SAR Class 5M Coach (Side A)
Description:  Most Class 5M commuter coaches have two sets of driver controlled sliding doors. The sliding doors on this coach have been modified to run on exterior rails instead of into door cavities in the coach sides. To hide the upper door rails, fascias were added to the full length of the coach roof on both sides.

SAR Class 5M2A, SAR Type S-11-T, Built from 1975, Length over headstocks 60'3 5/8" (18.380m, or later models 18.545m), Height 12'0" (3.660m), Width 9'3" (2.820m).
Photo Date:  2/12/2007  Upload Date: 1/26/2009 4:12:07 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  295   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-062
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-062
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  2/12/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 10:50:55 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-062(U15C)
Views:  1002   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-063
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-063
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  2/12/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 10:53:02 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-063(U15C)
Views:  286   Comments: 0
MSC 42U1 MSCU 454222 2
Title:  MSC 42U1 MSCU 454222 2
Description:  MSC 40 Foot Open Top Shipping Container.
The Geneva-headquartered Mediterranean Shipping Company is the world's second-largest shipping line in terms of container vessel capacity. As of the end of December 2014 MSC was operating 471 container vessels with an intake capacity of 2,435,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
Photo Date:  2/12/2007  Upload Date: 7/27/2017 10:53:49 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Transit
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Views:  364   Comments: 0
SAR Class 6E1 E1950 (Series 8)
Title:  SAR Class 6E1 E1950 (Series 8)
Description:  Between 1979 and 1981 the South African Railways placed one hundred and five Class 6E1, Series 8 electric locomotives in mainline service, numbered in the range from E1896 to E2000. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by the General Electric Company (GEC). Series 8 is the only 6E1 series with unique visual distinguishing features. It can be distinguished from all earlier series by the large hatch door on each side, below the second small window to the right of the side door on the roof access ladder side, and below the first window immediately to the right of the door on the other side. It can also be distinguished from all subsequent series by the absence of rainwater drainage holes along the lower body sides.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 6E1, Series 8.
Photo Date:  3/13/2007  Upload Date: 4/25/2007 6:52:33 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E1950(6E1)
Views:  385   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-400 35-406
Title:  SAR Class 35-400 35-406
Description:  Between March 1976 and May 1980 the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 35-400 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service, numbered in the range from 35-401 to 35-500. Designed by General Electric, they were built in two batches by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl).
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-400.
Photo Date:  3/13/2007  Upload Date: 4/24/2007 6:06:34 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-406(U15C)
Views:  1051   Comments: 0
SAR Class 5M Coach (Side A)
Title:  SAR Class 5M Coach (Side A)
Description:  Most Class 5M commuter coaches have two sets of driver controlled sliding doors. The sliding doors on this coach have been modified to run on exterior rails instead of into door cavities in the coach sides. To hide the upper door rails, fascias were added to the full length of the coach roof on both sides. This one is part of the Boland Blitz, a daily commuter between Worcester and Cape Town, and has been modified by having steps and footlights added to facilitate embarking and disembarking at rural stations without platforms.

SAR Class 5M2A, SAR Type L-52-T, Length over headstocks 60'3 5/8" (18.380m), Height 12'0" (3.660m), Width 9'3" (2.820m).
Photo Date:  3/15/2007  Upload Date: 1/26/2009 3:47:47 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  304   Comments: 0
SAR Class 36-000 36-017
Title:  SAR Class 36-000 36-017
Description:  Between June 1975 and 1981 the South African Railways placed one hundred and twenty-four Class 36-000 GE SG10B diesel-electric locomotives in service, numbered in the range from 36-001 to 36-124. Designed by General Electric, they were built in three batches by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl). The first one hundred locomotives were delivered by September 1978, followed in 1981 by two batches of twenty and four locomotives respectively.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 36-000.
Photo Date:  3/15/2007  Upload Date: 4/24/2007 5:09:43 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 36-017(SG10B)
Views:  480   Comments: 0
SAR Caboose (Type 3, Side A)
Title:  SAR Caboose (Type 3, Side A)
Description:  This caboose is part of a welded rail train. Cabooses are used as living quarters, usually for personnel on tasks away from home at places without suitable accommodation. Side A is the compartment side and this model has only a baggage car type door on this side, with no vestibule. The interior layout is, from the left, a kitchen, a two-bed coupe and storage, a shower and toilet, a two-bed compartment, a two-bed coupe, and a storeroom.

SAR Type ZO-3, Number range 14640 to 14832, Built 1966, Length over headstocks 40' 6", Height 12' 1 5/16", Width 9' 2 3/8", To sleep 4 & 2 attendants.
Photo Date:  3/15/2007  Upload Date: 4/6/2007 4:40:54 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  279   Comments: 0
SAR Class 6E1 E1816 (Series 7)
Title:  SAR Class 6E1 E1816 (Series 7)
Description:  Between 1977 and 1979 the South African Railways placed one hundred and fifty Class 6E1, Series 7 electric locomotives in mainline service, numbered in the range from E1746 to E1895. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by the General Electric Company (GEC). The Series 6 and Series 7 locomotives are visually indistinguishable from each other, but can be distinguished from earlier series models by their rainwater beadings above the small grilles on the sides just to the right of the side doors.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 6E1, Series 7.
Photo Date:  3/16/2007  Upload Date: 11/7/2007 5:57:28 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E1816(6E1)
Views:  284   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-400 35-403
Title:  SAR Class 35-400 35-403
Description:  Between March 1976 and May 1980 the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 35-400 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service, numbered in the range from 35-401 to 35-500. Designed by General Electric, they were built in two batches by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl).
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-400.
Photo Date:  3/16/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 11:08:06 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-403(U15C)
Views:  494   Comments: 0
SAR Dining Car (Series 2, Side A)
Title:  SAR Dining Car (Series 2, Side A)
Description:  This dining car, the BASHEE, is painted in the Premier Classe livery. Dining cars run permanently coupled to kitchen cars and are always positioned in the middle of the train. The interior layout is, from the left, cupboards on both sides of the centre aisle, the dining room, and a bar with a passage around it on the B side.

SAR Type A-1, Number range 401 to 419 (odd numbers only). Built 1968, Length over headstocks 47' 6" (19.952m), Height 13' 0" (3.937m), Width 9' 4" (2.845m), To seat 38.
Photo Date:  3/16/2007  Upload Date: 4/13/2007 4:14:32 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  335   Comments: 0
SAR Class 5M Cab Coach (Left)
Title:  SAR Class 5M Cab Coach (Left)
Description:  This is a special three coach commuter train painted in rainbow colours and depicting children and Table Mountain. It is inscribed 'A Metrorail, SARCC & British High Commission Project' (SARCC is the South African Rail Commuter Corporation Limited.) The train is usually utilised for charter trips only. This cab coach, which started life as a parcel coach, has only one set of sliding doors and a large centre window was added in the driver's cab.

SAR Class 5M2A, SAR Type KS-5-D, Length over headstocks 60'3 5/8" (18.380m), Height 12'0" (3.660m), Width 9'3" (2.820m).
Photo Date:  3/19/2007  Upload Date: 3/31/2007 10:17:39 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  740   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-027
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-027
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  3/19/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 11:13:11 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-027(U15C)
Views:  565   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-034
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-034
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  3/19/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 11:18:49 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-034(U15C)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
SAR Baggage-Van (Series 3, Side A)
Title:  SAR Baggage-Van (Series 3, Side A)
Description:  This combination conductor's van/baggage car is painted in the Shosholoza Meyl livery. It has two pairs of plugdoor type sliding doors. The conductor's cabin, with exit doors and periscopes on both sides and a toilet on the A side, is in the centre of the wagon. This one's periscopes have been removed.
Photo Date:  3/19/2007  Upload Date: 4/14/2007 11:51:46 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  301   Comments: 0
SAR Dining Car (Series 3, Side B)
Title:  SAR Dining Car (Series 3, Side B)
Description:  This dining car, the COEGA, is painted in the Shosholoza Meyl livery. Dining cars run permanently coupled to kitchen cars and are always positioned in the middle of the train. Side B has one door on the left and eight large windows. The interior layout is, from the right, cupboards on both sides of the centre aisle, the dining room, and a bar with a passage around it on the B side.

SAR Type A-3, Number range 421 to 439 (odd numbers only), Built 1970, Length over headstocks 19.950m, Height 3.937m, Width 2.845m, To seat 38.
Photo Date:  3/19/2007  Upload Date: 4/2/2007 7:23:20 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  375   Comments: 0
SAR Dining Car (Series 3, Side A)
Title:  SAR Dining Car (Series 3, Side A)
Description:  This dining car, the NAHOON, is painted in the Shosholoza Meyl livery. Dining cars run permanently coupled to kitchen cars and are alwgys positioned in the middle of the train. Side A has no doors and on the right end there is a service hatch as well as a shunter's stirrup and handhold. The interior layout is, from the left, cupboards on both sides of the centre aisle, the dining room, and a bar with a passage around it on the B side.

SAR Type A-3, Number range 421 to 439 (odd numbers only), Built 1970, Length over headstocks 19.950m, Height 3.937m, Width 2.845m, To seat 38.
Photo Date:  3/19/2007  Upload Date: 4/13/2007 4:24:45 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  316   Comments: 0
SAR Class 5M Cab Coach (Right)
Title:  SAR Class 5M Cab Coach (Right)
Description:  This is a special three coach commuter train painted in rainbow colours and depicting children and Table Mountain. It is inscribed 'A Metrorail, SARCC & British High Commission Project' (SARCC is the South African Rail Commuter Corporation Limited.) The train is usually utilised for charter trips only. This cab coach has only one set of sliding doors and one of the windows on this side of the coach was removed, while a large centre window was added in the driver's cab.

SAR Class 5M2A, SAR Type L-51-D, Length over headstocks 60'3 5/8" (18.380m), Height 12'0" (3.660m), Width 9'3" (2.820m).
Photo Date:  3/19/2007  Upload Date: 3/31/2007 10:11:10 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
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Views:  737   Comments: 0
Angola 3rd Class Coach (Side B) (C424)
Title:  Angola 3rd Class Coach (Side B) (C424)
Description:  This Angolan 3rd Class coach has a SAR road number (25142) on its chassis, but is painted in Angola's Benguela Railway livery (CFB - Caminho de Ferro de Benguela). It has ten windows on each side and its interior layout is a toilet on each side at both ends and a single large open cabin laid out in ten sets of facing seats, with a slightly off centre aisle between the two-seater benches on one side and the three-seater benches on the other side of the coach.

SAR Type H-1, Number range 25001 to 25149, Built 1970-71, Length over headstocks 65' 5 1/2", Height 13' 0", Width 9' 4", To seat 98.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 7/4/2009 3:19:05 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  439   Comments: 0
SAR Class 6E E1214
Title:  SAR Class 6E E1214
Description:  In 1970 and 1971 the South African Railways placed eighty Class 6E electric locomotives in mainline service, numbered in the range from K1146 to E1225. Two more were built for xhe Sishen iron ore mine. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by Associated Electrical Industries and English Electric. Comp_red to the Class 5E1, the Class 6E had improved traction motors and was equipped with electronic wheel slip detection.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 6E.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 3/13/2009 3:45:40 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E1214(6E)
Views:  420   Comments: 0
SAR Class 6E E1170
Title:  SAR Class 6E E1170
Description:  In 1970 and 1971 the South African Railways placed eighty Class 6E electric locomotives in mainline service, numbered in the range from E1146 to E1225. Two more were built for the Sishen iron ore mine. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by Associated Electrical Industries and English Electric. Compared to the Class 5E1, the Class 6E had improved traction motors and was equipped with electronic wheel slip detection.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 6E.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 4/27/2007 5:09:34 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E1170(6E)
Views:  572   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-029
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-029
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 12:41:55 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-029(U15C)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-067
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-067
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 11/1/2007 5:09:25 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-067(U15C)
Views:  442   Comments: 0
SAR Class 36-000 36-020
Title:  SAR Class 36-000 36-020
Description:  Between June 1975 and 1981 the South African Railways placed one hundred and twenty-four Class 36-000 GE SG10B diesel-electric locomotives in service, numbered in the range from 36-001 to 36-124. Designed by General Electric, they were built in three batches by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl). The first one hundred locomotives were delivered by September 1978, followed in 1981 by two batches of twenty and four locomotives respectively.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 36-000.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 12:49:07 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 36-020(SG10B)
Views:  325   Comments: 0
ContainerWorld 22G1 FBXU 834098 5
Title:  ContainerWorld 22G1 FBXU 834098 5
Description:  ContainerWorld 20 Foot Dry Shipping Container.
Container World was established in 1983 with its head office in Durban and operates to all major cities within South Africa and Namibia.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 7/20/2017 7:59:42 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Transit
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Views:  32   Comments: 0
Interpool 22G1 IPXU 325537 1
Title:  Interpool 22G1 IPXU 325537 1
Description:  Interpool 20 Foot Dry Shipping Container.
Interpool of Princeton in the United States of America does business as TRAC Intermodal and leases intermodal equipment and chassis to domestic and international shippers.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 8/13/2017 11:37:48 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Transit
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Views:  43   Comments: 0
SAR Combine (Series 2, Side A)
Title:  SAR Combine (Series 2, Side A)
Description:  This is a combination passenger coach/van. Side A is the compartment side and judging from the window layout, its interior layout is, from the left, a toilet, two compartments, two coupes, three compartments, the conductor's cabin with pericopes on both sides, and a toilet.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 4/1/2007 7:22:38 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  367   Comments: 0
SAR Combine (Series 3, Side B)
Title:  SAR Combine (Series 3, Side B)
Description:  This is a combination passenger coach/van/baggage car. Side B is the passage side and its interior layout is, from the right, a toilet on each side, an open cabin with two corner seats and six sets of back-to-back seats with an offset aisle, one 1st Class compartment, a toilet, the conductor's cabin with exit doors and periscopes on both sides, and the baggage room.

SAR Type GH-1, Number range 39001 to 39039, Built 1985, Length over headstocks 20.840m, Height 3.960m, Width 2.845m, To seat 64.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 4/1/2007 4:51:32 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  324   Comments: 0
SAR Combine (Series 3, Side A)
Title:  SAR Combine (Series 3, Side A)
Description:  This combination passenger coach/van/baggage car is painted in the Trans-Karoo livery. Side A is the compartment side and its interior layout is, from the left, a toilet on each side, an open cabin with two corner seats and six sets of back-to-back seats with an offset aisle, one 1st Class compartment, a toilet, the conductor's cabin with exit doors and periscopes on both sides, and the baggage room.

SAR Type GH-1, Number range 39001 to 39039, Built 1985, Length over headstocks 20.840m, Height 3.960m, Width 2.845m, To seat 64.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 4/1/2007 5:01:13 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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SAR Sitter Coach (Series 2-4, Side B)
Title:  SAR Sitter Coach (Series 2-4, Side B)
Description:  This sitter coach (a PC title for 4th Class) has a SAR road number (25142) on its chassis, but is painted in Angola's CFB (Caminho de Ferro de Benguela) livery. It has ten windows on each side and its interior layout is a toilet on each side at both ends and a single large open cabin laid out in ten sets of facing seats, with a slightly off centre aisle between the two-seater benches on one side and the three-seater benches on the other side of the coach.

SAR Type H-1, Number range 25001 to 25149, Built 1970-71, Length over headstocks 65' 5 1/2", Height 13' 0", Width 9' 4", To seat 98.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 4/1/2007 7:29:32 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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SAR Sleeper Coach (Series 2-1, Type 1, Side B)
Title:  SAR Sleeper Coach (Series 2-1, Type 1, Side B)
Description:  This first class coach is painted in the Trans-Karoo livery. Side B is the passage side and its interior layout is, from the right, a toilet, two four-bed compartments, two two-bed coupes, three four-bed compartments, a shower, and a toilet.

SAR Type C-36, Original number range 3856 to 3894 and 22001 to 22360, Built 1969-78, Length over headstocks 65' 5", Height 13' 0", Width 9' 4", To sleep 24, To seat 36.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 4/2/2007 6:46:59 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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SAR Class 10M Motor Coach (Type 3 L)
Title:  SAR Class 10M Motor Coach (Type 3 L)
Description:  Class 10M commuter trains are totally rebuilt on Class 5M frames. The most apparent visual differences from the older wagons are the ribbed sides, the new "face" on the cab ends, some blue (Western Cape) or turquoise (KwaZulu-Natal) added to the usual gray and yellow livery, and a new numbering system that ends with M for motor coaches and T for standard unmotorised coaches.
Photo Date:  3/22/2007  Upload Date: 3/29/2007 7:19:08 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  SAS 10M50036M(Electric M.U.)
Views:  1403   Comments: 0
SAR Class 6E E1186
Title:  SAR Class 6E E1186
Description:  In 1970 and 1971 the South African Railways placed eighty Class,6E electric oocomotives in mainline service, numbered in the range from E1146 to E1225. Two more were built for the Sishen iron ore mine. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by Associated Electrical Industries and English Electric. Compared to the Class 5E1, the Class 6E had jmproved traction motors and was equipped with electronic wheel slip detection.
See#also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 6E.
Photo Date:  4/12/2007  Upload Date: 3/6/2009 3:53:34 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E1186(6E)
Views:  410   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-037
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-037
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  4/12/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 12:56:35 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-037(U15C)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-057
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-057
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  4/12/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 12:58:07 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-057(U15C)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
SAR Kitbhen Car (Series 3, Side A)
Title:  SAR Kitbhen Car (Series 3, Side A)
Description:  This kitchen car is painted in the Shosholoza Meyl livery. Kitchen cars run permanently coupled to dining cars and are always positioned in the middle of the train. Side A is the compartment side and the interior layout is, from the left, a pantry, the kitchen, a vegetable compartment, a refrigerator and deep freeze, two two-bed coupes, two five-bed compartments, a shower and a toilet.

SAR Type AA-3, Number range 422 to 442 (even numbers only), Built 1970, Length over headstocks 19.950m, Height 3.937m, Width 2.845m, To sleep 14.
Photo Date:  4/12/2007  Upload Date: 4/13/2007 5:15:10 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  285   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-000 35-046
Title:  SAR Class 35-000 35-046
Description:  Between March 1972 and May 1973 the South African Railways placed seventy Class 35-000 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service. The locomotive was designed and built in two batches by General Electric, fifty locomotives in 1972 and another twenty in 1973. They were numbered in the range from 35-001 to 35-070.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-000
Photo Date:  5/23/2007  Upload Date: 5/26/2007 11:48:55 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-046(U15C)
Views:  414   Comments: 2
SAR Class 36-000 36-001
Title:  SAR Class 36-000 36-001
Description:  Between June 1975 and 1981 the South African Railways placed one hundred and twenty-four Class 36-000 GE SG10B diesel-electric locomotives in service, numbered in the range from 36-001 to 36-124. Designed by General Electric, they were built in three batches by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl). The first one hundred locomotives were delivered by September 1978, followed in 1981 by two batches of twenty and four locomotives respectively.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 36-000.
Photo Date:  5/23/2007  Upload Date: 5/26/2007 11:55:35 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 36-001(SG10B)
Views:  1289   Comments: 0
SAR Combine (Series 3, Side B)
Title:  SAR Combine (Series 3, Side B)
Description:  This combination passenger coach/van/baggage car is painted in the Shosholoza Meyl livery. Side B is the passage side and its interior layout is, from the right, a toilet on each side, an open cabin with two corner seats and six sets of back-to-back seats with an offset aisle, one 1st Class compartment, a toilet, the conductor's cabin with exit doors and periscopes on both sides, and the baggage room.

SAR Type GH-1, Number range 39001 to 39039, Built 1985, Length over headstocks 20.840m, Height 3.960m, Width 2.845m, To seat 64.
Photo Date:  5/23/2007  Upload Date: 5/26/2007 11:38:18 AM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col Andre Kritzinger
Categories:  RollingStock,Passenger
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Views:  264   Comments: 0
SAR Class 6E E1199
Title:  SAR Class 6E E1199
Description:  In 1970 and 1971 the South African Railways placed eighty Class 6E electric locomotives in mainline service, numbered in the range from E1146 to E1225. Two more were built for the Sishen iron ore mine. It was designed and built by Union Carriage and Wagon in Nigel, Transvaal, with the electrical equipment supplied by Associated Electrical Industries and English Electric. Compared to the Class 5E1, the Class 6E had improved traction motors and was equipped with electronic wheel slip detection.
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 6E.
Photo Date:  6/26/2007  Upload Date: 12/1/2009 8:48:22 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS E1199(6E)
Views:  414   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-400 35-425
Title:  SAR Class 35-400 35-425
Description:  Between March 1976 and May 1980 the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 35-400 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service, numbered in the range from 35-401 to 35-500. Designed by General Electric, they were built in two batches by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl).
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-400.
Photo Date:  6/26/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 1:21:27 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-425(U15C)
Views:  356   Comments: 0
SAR Class 35-400 35-444
Title:  SAR Class 35-400 35-444
Description:  Between March 1976 and May 1980 the South African Railways placed one hundred Class 35-400 GE U15C diesel-electric locomotives in service, numbered in the range from 35-401 to 35-500. Designed by General Electric, they were built in two batches by the South African General Electric-Dorman Long Locomotive Group (SA GE-DL, later Dorbyl).
See also the Wikipedia article on the South African Class 35-400.
Photo Date:  6/26/2007  Upload Date: 3/3/2009 1:23:30 PM
Location:  Stikland, Ca
Author:  Col André Kritzinger
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  SAS 35-444(U15C)
Views:  283   Comments: 0


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