Well this certainly ended up being much longer than expected. Despite only going out of town once throughout May 2024, I still managed to film plenty of trains in Tauranga and Mount Maunganui. Of course, they were all hauled by the ubiquitous 'DL' class diesel locomotives, but DH 2851 and the ballast cleaner ETM 567 also appear in this video, as do some of the Bayhopper buses (I'm a casual bus enthusiast alongside the railway).
For context, DH 2851 is a little shunting locomotive built by General Electric in 1978. Only six examples of the 'DH' class were ever built, and their model designation is 'GE U10B'.
31 май 2024
