Sitting here at a desk in an office in a building in the middle of Long Island, I'm supposed to be working - but instead I'm posting a picture on RP and missing my homeland of New Zealand. Once or... (more)

KiwiRail attired DX 5460 and DC 4513 bring a short off-season TranzAlpine train toward Moana, with the swampy edge of Lake Brunner and the foothills of the Southern Alps in the background.

DCs 4761 and 4628 head a westbound TranzAlpine passenger train across the bridge over the Cass River after emerging from a thick fog that blanketed the line between Springfield and Cass.

At the end of the earth: After being a tourist in New Zealand with the good woman for the past few weeks, I finally get a trainspotting day pass and have to drive 300km north in cloud before fin... (more)

Freshly repainted KiwiRail DCs 4513 and 4761 head a short TranzAlpine passenger away from Cass.

And my vote for world's worst livery goes to... DFT 7023 heads the Picton-bound TranzCoastal passenger right onto the beach beside the Pacific Ocean. It wears the horrid faded-vomit paint scheme a... (more)

DXs 5385 and 5454 head 842 eastward with the Southern Alps providing a suitable backdrop.

KiwiRail attired DX 5460 and DC 4513 bring a short off-season TranzAlpine train up the Kaimata bank, less than an hour from its westbound destination of Greymouth.

The sole pair of South Island based KiwiRail painted DXs (at the time - there are now more but with the vertical colour separation) were paired up for a few days in March 2009 after we arranged to... (more)

DX 5391 has since been repainted in the red/yellow/gray KiwiRail paint, but back in 2006, it was bringing an empty coaltrain down the Cass bank. Within a few minutes the train will notch up for th... (more)

Empty containers destined for the Hokitika dairy plant head west along the South Island's midland line

At walking pace, bumblebee-attired DC 4421 gingerly tip-toes across a spindly little matchstick bridge that seems out of place in the current millennium. Each weekday during the milk season, a ... (more)

DCs 4761 and 4628 head a westbound TranzAlpine passenger train into the Southern Alps on a crystal clear late-winter morning. After three consecutive days of freshly painted KiwiRail locos on the ... (more)

Bottoming out. A pair of DXs in the nasty "Toll Rail" livery bring empty coalie 849 off the grade and into the Otira yard. All very well for descending empties, but loaded trains travelin... (more)

Freshly repainted KiwiRail DCs 4513 and 4761 head an off-season TranzAlpine passenger back towards Christchurch, with a few hardy souls out on the open-air observation van platforms braving the la... (more)