DC4346 was repaired afterwards and has since been sold overseas as of April 2024. 4346 also wore the yellow over brown Tasman Forestry livery back in the day
I too was on this train and this has bought back many memories. I went with Mum, Dadand Aunty. It was called the "Photographers Special" Will have to go and look out my photos from that day. Remember coming home in the dark and watching the moon appear on one side then see it out the other side with all the winding trail. Now they are thinking of closing the route to Middlemarch from Dunedin which run daily (mainly to Pukurangi and occasionly to Middlemarch) before Covid😢
I remember being assistant guard sometimes standing on Tainui ready to operate the emergency brake in the push/pull days before Glenbrook station opened.
Absolute travesty - should have put a walking/cycling lane alongside it separated by a fence. Plenty of tourists would take a scenic train trip with large windows on that route
Dam, that brings back days of my youth in Central. Why the hell they pulled up the track is beyond me. Keep the old KA steam loco, the carriages and run them as a tourist attraction and it would be a major winner these days. So sad really - so much of our past is being destroyed.
Bob Furgeson was one of the LE's. 3499 was meant to be saved for the OETT but in true NZR style they rooted it as well as 3194. All the good loco's we picked out the head fitter at NZR made sure we got the rooted ones. Cant remember the pricks name but he and Arthur really hated each other. I can recall an argument they had and the bloke said " I will make sure I will give you wrecks" and he did. Scrapped the good ones. 3499 was in its prime but dropped a liner. The wanker fixed it but didnt change the oil - unknown to us. We ran her up to charge the batts - I was walking out to shut her down - well she shut herself down (OPS) pulled the dip stick - grey ooze. Fixable but guess what that wanker loco depot prick did ?? Scrapped her. And she was mint.
I'm guessing the engine is geared to the wheels in some way. Does the same engine also power the hoist and slewing gears? It sounds like a traction engine moving along.
Another sad fact about this video is that both of the DJ Class locomotives (DJ 1246 and DJ 1218) were both withdrawn and scrapped not long after the final train to Clyde. DJ 1246 in April 1990 and DJ 1218 in September 1991.
How is everything in the medical martial law police state of New Zealand? Still no one in / no one out? Adolph Hitler would be considered a libertarian there!
Luar biasa, masih ada mesin kuno dengan kondisi yang masih sehat. Yang sangat menarik adalah coupler ganconya. Rasanya baru sekali ini saya melihat kereta api di luar negeri yang coupler ganconya sama persis dengan coupler peninggalan Belanda di Indonesia.
I often wondered exactly how rail was laid or replaced. This video was very informative and shows how labor intensive and expensive each project is. Great video!
If you have a look at how the big railways replace track, they have multi million dollar machines to do massive amounts of work. While we are a preservation group of volunteers, we are fortunate with the amount of tools and machinery that we do have. Most groups in New Zealand do not have anywhere near the same amount of equipment. It took us about 18 months to make all the tracksets and transport them from our workshop at Pukeoware to Morley Road, where the job started. We did all of this work over a winter shut down of about five months. Trains started running before we were completely finished but the track was in a usable state. We inspected out entire line about two months ago and in this section of track we found only four sleepers which had rotted out. We will replace these at some stage. The rest of this section is still in excellent condition. The tamping job was particularly good because the top and line is still excellent. All that hard work was well worth it and was highly enjoyable.
