Quote Originally Posted by Mike_Oettle View Post
Great pics, Nighthawk!
That side tank loco looks interesting, especially since it is standing on a piece of rack rail track.
When the line from Delagoa Bay (now Maputo) to Pretoria was first built, the route chosen for climbing the Drakensberg escarpment was by means of a rack rail line linking the stations Waterval Boven and Waterval Onder, going through a tunnel.
The tunnel has long since been replaced by a more modern piece of engineering, but one can hike through it.
The snow plough looks like a museum piece – has it been replaced by something more modern?
Regards,
Mike
The side tanker was designed to climb Long's Peak. That's the reason for the track. It goes up about a 40 degree angle. That snow plow is a museum now, but there is a snow plow that has not been replaced. It's part of a living, functioning museum, called the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, which is a narrow gauge mountain line that was completed at the turn of the century, and runs as a tourist line now with most of the original rolling stock.