Well, the pastry's have been eaten and its time to go shopping (white ware and brewing supplies).
As an interesting note While hunting for something else I came across the Wikipedia page on Da's. If you trawl down you can see that Dc's 4421 and 4513 are converted from Da's 1441 and 1446, which started service in August 1961. This would then make then 50 years old. There will be arguments about just how much of the original is left, but they are arguments that one could level at preserved steam locos as well.
While ducking behind the parapet I'll just leave you with these little gems.
Into New Plymouth.
My favorite bit is at the start.
A short clip from 'Kb country'
A fitting tribute to Brian Cross. Some of the camera work is just fantastic.
(The guy who posted it doesn't have any other NZR videos in his account, just a stack of dodgy looking Anime videos)
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Kb country is a superb piece of work isn't it. Also 'after ninety years' on Denniston - the fellows at the old NFU were real masters of their craft. You do know this was on the DVD I sent you?
There are some brief shots there of thrashing valve gear....from memory, I read they did that by securing the Kb to something and greasing the rails, then thrashing the living daylights out of it. Must have been impressive to see first hand!
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