The daily KiwiRail TranzAlps scenic passenger train trip is seen arriving at Greymouth, New Zealand, with a pair of GE-built (originally U26C) and rebuilt to DXC class. KiwiRail 5356 and 5304 lea... (more)
Although there are still a few locos running around in fruit salad colours 25 years since the last loco was officially painted, I was pleasantly surprised to catch a pair of them coming into Greym... (more)
En route from Stillwater to Greymouth, DSC2366 leads a short freight shuttle through Dobson at sunset, and past the memorial to the man for whom the village is named.
With every one of its matchsticks creaking under the load, two DCs bring a loaded coal train from Rapahoe into Greymouth across an S shaped wooden truss bridge dating from the late 1800s. I heard ... (more)
The two hard working steam loco's of the Shantytown railway (www.Shantytown.co.nz) at rest after a days work
The TranzAlpine Express from Christchurch to Greymouth is seen here passing the streets of downtown Greymouth where it will uncouple and the loco will switch ends for our trip back home.
The South Islands sole DBR, 1213 keeps company with DC 4450 on a sunny winter sunday in the Greymouth yard.
The TranzAlpine, having turned on the other end of town, splits the small west coast Hamlet of Greymouth on New Zealand's south island as she heads back through town toward the station to c... (more)
