If you are wanting to see heritage horsepower, check out the Y22 shunt which runs between Dunedin and the Fonterra storage warehouse at Taieri. The Y22 shunt is predominately dominated with double DC's, and they sound magnificent when notching up.
The Y22 shunt brings in tarp sided containers full of products from Fonterra processing sites and empty containers to be loaded with products for export.
After exchanging the recently emptied rake, with a full rake to be unloaded, and pushing in a rake of empty export containers, the locomotives sit idle, until they depart with a rake of full export containers and the recently emptied containers. The rake of empty tarp containers will be detached at the Dunedin Railway yard, the the rake of full export containers will be hauled out to Port Chalmers.
22 мар 2024
