This photo from the Keith Cullen collection and taken by Derek Cross, shows a double-headed steam train descending the famous Rimutaka Incline near the bottom of it at Cross Creek (the name had nothing to do with Derek Cross) and near the end of the operation of the Incline on 29 October 1955.
As well as the locomotives there are three Fell-type brake vans behind them. The house was a ganger's home about 400 metres from Cross Creek.
Today most of the gorse and broom visible in this photo has given way to regenerated native trees.
For more photos of steam on the Rimutaka Incline, see our book New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour compiled from the Derek Cross collection.
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