New Zealand Miniature Steam | Part One 

I like the fact that it hauled the others like they were nothing

@Nick-xm1ux My Dad built that locomotive, Ted Carter of Rotorua. He died in 2003. He was a Master Locomotive Engineer and I watched K-36 getting built, from the blueprints up! I remember him being so meticulous about every part of her construction. He built her from a photocopy of a photocopy of some plans that no longer existed, that he somehow obtained from NZ Rail. He was especially careful about the whistle sound, he wanted to get it just right, and it would gladden his heart that you noticed it! I remember him blowing on the whistle to test it, then giving it to me to blow! He was absolutely meticulous in her construction, everything was done the "Old Way" with precision to 1/1000th of an inch or less! He even constructed the hand-bent walnut arches on the cabin, which were bent using steam in a steel-pipe mould, as were the originals when the big ones were built. This was very difficult and there may have been a few failures (I can't remember, actually) but he eventually got it right and the end result is the beautiful machine you see here, whose whistle and engine noises sound "just like the big ones"!

Der History Meister I mean, If I had a railroad where I transport people in my tiny locomotive, I would probably get some of the more “tough” looking locomotives too.

sadly the owner of the Big Boy passed away from cancer :(

@Mr_Tea_Rexx no he didn't.

He also built the Rogers K at 1:54 (running at Mangere). I know it well...

Being from the Spokane area, I was caught off guard. So neat

Well Yes and no, the Auckland Club is 90% 65+ and I am one of the more younger people. But I am witnessing a period of shortages of hobbyists.

@@joshuahill6153 I am sorry to hear that. I was hoping for the opposite of course. It's a very nice organization nonetheless.

Eventually, I really hope to visit the UK. I would like to visit the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway and the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway.

The Steam Channel It’s an absolute gem of a line, although a tad bumpy! The Dungeness landscape is worth a video in itself, it’s a very strange place.

well, they've been around a couple hundred years, it's not exactly black magic anymore

@@jamesm6638 yes but they are still precisely engineered machines.. i guess if you could get the drawings it would be a good start..

@@leonmorgan1158well yeah, obviously you need drawings but those are pretty easy to get ahold of

Really??

Joshua Hill we’re facing the same problem in the United States

That would be the New Zealand Dollar which, 1 NZD being equal to 0.67 USD at the time of posting this comment. New Zealanders are known as Kiwi's or enzedders. ANZAC originally stood for the Australian New Zealand Army Corps, who were the main British Empire force of soldiers from the Dominions and Colonies from Oceania during the first half of WW1, but is now used as a way to exemplify the bond between kiwis and aussies.

jockellis $2 is very cheap you won’t find much to do that costs less than $2 that involves a ride on something

linda frank I agree wholeheartedly on the price. Nineteen years ago Atlanta’s train fares went up to $1.50 if you didn’t have a monthly pass. I was attending machining school across town and had a monthly pass. Well the politicians started t complaining that the fare increase would hurt the poor people. I had to write a letter to the editor of the Atlanta Journal Constitution pointing out that most - if not all - “poor people” had monthly passes and never saw an increase at all.

New zealanders are known as kiwi's.