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)
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.
Freshly repainted KiwiRail DCs 4513 and 4761 head a short TranzAlpine passenger away from Cass.
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)
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)
Pacing DC 4352 as it leads the daily Southbound Overlander just south of Huntly
Power for 574 waits for more tonnage from the dairy plant.
Heading south to Papakura Station.
South bound to Papakura station
DC 4277 in old government paint scheme picks up a rake of concrete sleeper wagons.
One of only three red DC's left in the South Island and still looking pretty tidy for 20 year old paint!
DC 4110 in the morning sun at Smart Road on the fuel bay.
Looking back at the lime chips being unloaded at the steel mill, Mission Bush.
