With a precious few days holiday in NZ, I got up hours before sunrise and drove back into the hills in the hope of getting a shot of the weekly swap-out of Otira-based banker locos - catching them... (more)
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)