Train 849 rounds the S curves near Mt White Bridge, between Cass and Arthurs Pass.
The TranzAlpine teeters across the Slovens Creek Viaduct on its journey back east under a speed restriction imposed due to aftershocks from the 7.1m Christchurch earthquake 11 days prior. Within t... (more)
A DX+DC combo head up the Cass Bank in the Tranz Rail blue days
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.
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)
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)
Mainline Steam's Jb1236 blasts up Cass Bank during a photo runby
DXB 5264 waits at Cass for a crossing with 2100T of coal.
On New Zealand's south island, loaded coal train 842 (from Ngakawau to Lyttelton) climbs the Cass bank on the Midland line with DXB class locos 5425 and 5379 (both C30-MMi upgrades from U26C units... (more)
