Kiwirail freight 547, with containers and empty milk tanks, leaving the cutting beside the former Kai Iwi tunnel (portal visible at right) on the Marton-New Plymouth line.
Trains on 3' 6" (1.067m) track from Whangarei to Bluff with virtually heritage rebuilt EMD and GE locomotives still the mainstay power. The network was privatized in 1990's and operated by Toll until 2008 when state owned KiwiRail was established.