Riding high: Prasa’s ‘useless’ engines find new purpose up north

SA’s trash turns into treasure for a private locomotive operator in Tanzania

15 August 2021 - 18:43 By paul ash

There is a happy ending for some of the leading characters in the famous “too tall” locomotive saga that cost the Passenger Rail Agency billions of rand and hastened the demise of SA’s long-distance passenger trains...

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