GE's galore! DXB 5097, resplendent in its Phase 1 Kiwi Rail paint sits among friends as it waits in the depot before being called to run 523 south later in the day.
Two of GE's finest glow in the late afternoon sun. They will soon be urged into life and used to run 521 south.
Loaded milk train 544 climbs the grade to Ball Road with DXB 5108 on the front and DFB 7213 being dragged along behind.
Train F16 diverted through the Wairarapa plains rounds a curve near the town of Eketahuna after the North Island main trunk line was closed for an upgrade over the Christmas/New Year period.
Train F16 diverted through Wairarapa plains, crosses the Waingawa River on the approach to Masterton city after the North Island main trunk line was closed for an upgrade over the Christmas/New Ye... (more)
With the loaded ‘coalie’ stretched around Otira’s station the five big GE DXCs with 15.000 horsepower in total create ‘thunder in the mountains’ as they get Train number 844 under way o... (more)
With five DXC’s on the front the three bankers and two train locomotives roll Train NO 844 over the Rolleston River bridge on the approach to the west portal of the Otira Tunnel on their way t... (more)
The Otira bankers wait next to the re-fueling station high in the Otira yards as NO 829, a westbound freight train, descends the hill into Otira on its way to Refton.
The two South Island KiwiRail phase 1 painted locos bring train 846 (coal plus 6 cement tanks) around the wye that takes them through the mountains to the east coast.
It's the end of the world as we know it... The returning Tranz Alpine passenger train skirts the cliff ledge between Staircase and Springfield. The milky waters of the Waimakariri river are caused... (more)
DSC 2624 has just returned to us from its 3 monthly service fresh in new Kiwi Rail colours.
A very late 543 waits in the morning sun at Waitotara to cross northbound service 526.
DXB 5074 pulls service 524 through the curves north of Eltham.
Loaded milk train 544 holds the main at Waitotara with DXB 5074, a "Big Block" 3300hp GE on the front. Having just crossed empty milk service 547, 544 will take its 800,000 litre load of milk to t... (more)
DFT 7145 pulls a short 526 out of the dip at Lepperton past the old station site.
