Class 18E, 18-673, as a brand new locomotive and looking rather smart in her red Transnet Freight Rail livery on the ready line at Umbilo Electric Locomotive Depot awaiting her first duty. The Class 6E1 upgrade / refurbishment to Class 18E project has been in progress at Koedespoort for near on 14 years now.
Photos taken in the Durban area, from the PRASA / Metrorail yards just North of Durban Station to Rossburgh Station including the Bayhead yards and along the Esplanade, Maydon Wharf and around Durban Harbour.
An exclamation attributed to TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, it is this eponymous expression of which certain images convey man and machine versus nature . . .
