Saturday, May 28, 2022
Friday, May 27, 2022
the Taupo Totara Timber Company's Mallet art
A painting by the late Peter Baker from a 1967 calendar. The Taupo Totara Timber Co. Mallet No. 7 was a 2-4-4-2 tender locomotive built in 1912 by the American Locomotive Company at Schenectady, New York, It is now preserved at the Glenbrook Vintage Railway south of Auckland as GVR No. 4 and it is NZ's only Mallet Compound Steam Engine. It last worked in 2001 and has been stored since.
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Thursday, May 26, 2022
BAe Jetstream 31-3102
Swiss 6-car TEE train set of SBB Historic
Seen in action last year. This has been made multi-voltage so it can travel to Benelux that uses different electric overhead systems to that used in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. See earlier posts. (Still from an SBB Historic video)
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Tuesday, May 24, 2022
cars in Nogales, Mexico, 1950s - 1960s
Nogales, Mexico, is literally on the other side of the border fence with Nogales, Arizona, see earlier posts.

















