"Time flies when you're having fun" is the saying, although trying to bring in greenbacks to pay absurdly high rents and food prices in L.A. (Wellington property values have declined about 20% this year although council [property tax] hasn't) also means you feel there's not enough hours in the day.
We planned this time last year to put up a direct-sell website for books we still have and didn't, so it's now a 2026 New Year Resolution!
For over 300 more photos like this, get the book New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour compiled from the Derek Cross collection.
For heaps more like this, see the book New Zealand 1950s Steam in Colour compiled from the Derek Cross collection
A page from a WAGR brochure showing the first of the cape gauge A class, 1501, delivered in 1960. In January 2008, A1501 was withdrawn and donated to Rail Heritage WA.
In between time a total 25 of the class, duvided into an A, AA and AB series were delivered from 1960 to 1970 by Clyde Engineering in Granville and Comeng in Bassendean. The A class had Electro Motive Diesel 12-567C prime movers while the AA and AB:had the larger Electro Motive Diesel 12-645E.
by Theodore Xaras, dated 1981 although the scene itself will be 30 years or more earlier. The lead loco looks like a Pennsylvania Railroad K4 class. Available commerically as a print.
This seems to us a hardcore thing to do, but it's an instructional video on old truck restoration. There are several other videos on this theme.
Approximate view now (the FW Woolworth building is still there but now used as a cocktail lounge).
Amarillo, Texas, is called "Bomb City" because it's home to the Pantex Plant, the U.S.'s only facility for assembling and disassembling nuclear weapons, making the city synonymous with nuclear arms, a nickname embraced locally and featured in art and culture.
241 of these were built between 1967 and 1987. The Fokker F28 directly competed with the American Douglas DC-9 and British BAC 1-11.
Date not given -- 1950s? The 7.2 km, meter-gauge line closed in January 1964. Wikipedia article (Pic via Alain Givellet)
Now restored and based in Ferrymead, part of the Diesel Traction Group collection. Here it is seen in Palmerston on a run to Dunedin. See the earlier posts on the Di class.
The city was established in 1906 by US Steel and thrived for a long time, but is now in a severe state of decline. The peak population was about 175,000 in the 1960s, now it's about 68,000.
For lots of info on NZ railway crashes see the book Danger Ahead: NZ Railway Accidents in the modern era
