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Idler cars are used for reaching into the ferry.
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Idler cars are used for reaching into the ferry.

  • A road switcher at speed south of Napier, NI.
  • A rather unusual way of getting a signal in Paekakariki, on the commuter line north of Wellington, NI.
  • Northbound commuter train approaching Paekakariki station.
  • Northbound commuter train slowing for Paekakariki station.
  • A southbound leaving for Wellington.
  • Accelerating away from the station. Note the wooden catenary poles.
  • Picton, SI harbor with the ferry terminal. If you look closely you can see a switcher running into the ferry hold on the lower level of the loading bridge.
  • The staging tracks in Picton are sized for the length of the tracks in the ferry hold.
  • A cut of cars gets pulled off the ferry.
  • Idler cars are used for reaching into the ferry.
  • Ngakawau on the west coast of the South Island. A set of DXBs has just dropped their empty coal train under the flood loader and runs around it.
  • They run around their train already spotted underneath Solid Energy's massive concrete loading tipple.
  • An aerial tramway brings in the coal on the left.
  • The crew shoves back onto the train west of the tipple.
  • Shoving back under the loader as a light drizzle starts to settle in.
  • Ngakawau is a throughly modern operation, right down to the hopper cars.
  • In Greymouth, engines congregate in front of the yard office.
  • 1213 will run tomorrow's milk train. Today's train sits in the middle waiting for a crew to take it east.
  • At Invercargill, a stormy sky threatens as a train prepares to leave for Dunedin.
  • Back on the west coast of the South Island, the milk train is seen crossing one of two road/rail bridges north of Hokitika.
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