One of 50 dating from from 1952 - 1954 and now preserved. They were run as three car sets -- motor+trailer+motor -- and the motor cars were fitted with a 12 cylinder diesel engine giving a power output of 503 hp.
Interestingly the silver with green stripe livery was used in NZ for the Standard railcars from the late 1930s (see earler posts).
Nearly all of them British which was the case generally at that time in NZ. The (semi) island doesn't have any commercial features now.
Approximate present day view. https://maps.app.goo.gl/UtfnjwQUsojgjziEA
These sets are for the meter-gauge system centered on Poprad Tatry on the southern side of the Tatra mountains (see earlier posts) and date from 2021. Five sets were built by Stadler and two are coupled in this scene. Info (ZSSK pic)
One of the most popular railfan routes in the Southwest. Start at the 28 minute point where the scenery gets interesting.
Obviously this is not a winter scene! Over 4,000 of the 2-10-0 type were built in the 10 years following WW2.
As we approach the end of the 15th year of our blog, the question that often occurs now is -- why are we doing this?
In the first 6-7 years it complemented our retail division which sold transport-subject books and DVDs, but sales of them have steadily reduced to the point where that division has become almost defunct as ever more people have switched to using the web to research their subjects of interest.
This blog has been a labor of love for some years, but as economic conditions have become tough with soaring costs, particularly in Los Angeles, and Wellington is little better, we need to devote more time to the things that bring in dinero.
We'll put a tip jar up shortly, the response to which will provide incentive to carry on or not as the case may be.
A frequently used photo location, see the book South Island Main Trunk for more. Why did the original red of the Dj class fade to pink? Probably because of the paint they got in Japan.
This may have been an answer to the LMS's Mid-day Scot which began in 1927?
The building in the immediate background is still there, now named 'Bondi Beach Bums' and we're fairly sure the standpoint is in the link below, although the street layout has changed a bit since then.
Some readers will remember in BBC days Jeremy Clarkson on the Top Gear motoring show loved to demonstrate his contempt for the car+trailer holiday home (caravan) combinations being driven on roads, and on occasion dropped them from heights to destroy them.
But this 'artistic' creation from the 2000s wasn't one of his, seen outside the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.
For lots more, see the book 50 Years of Volkswagens in New Zealand.
Locomotive number 313, one of 15 'elephant ear' smoke deflector equipped 'Northern' type of the D&H, seen in the yard at Whitehall, New York on 2 September 1950.
These were built by Alco at Schenectady in 1943. "The class was eventually retired between 1952 and 1953, and like all steam locomotives on the D&H, none were preserved."
More here
and here
An encounter that would be improbable in reality, unfortunately Presumably the Delaware and Hudson is the railroad depicted in the foreground.
Those who have the book New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour compiled from the Derek Cross collection have the details.
