Mainline Steam Main NZ Steam Tour hash Ka 942 putting on a show coming off the Matahorua Viaduct which is 200' high. This was the first ever trip to Gisborne for a Ka class - sadly the last steam... (more)

Mainline Steam Northlander excursion approaches Mangapai on the return run from Whangarei to Auckland.

Mainline Steam Northlander excursion to Whangarei approaches Oakleigh with only a few miles to go. Railfan specials are the only passenger trains on this scenic line.

Mainline Steam Kaipara Cannonball excursion with Ja 1275 to Helensville returning to Auckland and seen here climbing the 2% grade into Avondale.

Mainline Steam NZ Steam Tour excursion departs Papakura for Taumarunui. This annual tour attacts railfans from all over the world. This location is the southern end of the electrification of Auc... (more)

Passing the platform to join up at the other end of the special excursion train to Tokoroa.

Ka942 during a northbound photo run-by at Blacks Beach, on New Zealand's Gisborne Line. This was during Mainline Steam's two-week NZ tour 2011.

North British (Glasgow, Scotland) built (1952) oil-burning 4-8-2 heads an Auckland-Helensville father's day excursion through attractive countryside NW of Auckland. (Yes it was father's day in NZ!... (more)

Steamlocomotive 4-8-2 J 1211 GLORIA with the 2008 Mainline Steam Trust tour train is storming along Black's Beach towards Gisborne.

The "Pacific" of the Ab class were very successful steamengines of the NZR. Ab 663 SHARON LEE, built in 1917 by Addington Workshops Christchurch and operational again for Mainline Steam since 1997... (more)

Three stars of the Mainline Steam Trust on the same picture: 4-8-4 Ka 942, 4-6-2 Ab 663 and 4-8-2 J 1211 during the Main Trunk Line Centennial in Feilding.

Mainline Steam's huge Ka 942 NIGEL BRUCE is New Zealands only operational 4-8-4. Built in 1940 by Hutt Workshops, she was converted in 1948 from coal to oil burning and the front planking/semi-str... (more)

A flock of sheeps is escaping along the Hautapu River when steamlocomotive Ja 1275 of Mainline Steam with a long train rounds Turangarere Loop on the ascent from Taihape to Waiouru. The oilfired 4... (more)

The semi-streamlined J 1211 in a runpast of the 2008 Mainline Steam tour. The elegant 4-8-2 was built in 1939 by North British and got her streamlining, which was removed in 1950, again in 1988.

Oilfired 4-8-2 Jb 1236 JOANNE of Mainline Steam Trust with a charter train from Christchurch to Dunedin near Waikouiti.