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| This
shot near Inchbonnie from the previous trip fails to qualify as
a sunset shot so I think we'll call it "moody"
instead. Stop looking for the train, there isn't one. |
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| 31
March. I've missed the KR locos on 842 so wait around for Mike
Kilsby, playing offside east of the divide, heading the Hoki
train west |
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| I'm
not piloting the only piece of noisy
old green English machinery running over the hill this
morning |
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| However
the next fellow, who's come this far via riverbeds and
mountaintops, makes the Mini's scampering over the hillside look
positively pedestrian. |
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| Bah.
More mismatched nonsense at Te Kinga |
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| And
more into Moana. I'm not normally one for dabbling in the
reality distortion cults, but must admit that quite a few poles
were eradicated from this picture. Had to do something to
recover this shot. Sorry about the lighting. |
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| The
same train departing Moana after a crossing with 846 |
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| Next
morning the weather is perfect but the KR locos have been
replaced with not only odd-socks, but dirty odd-socks at that.
At least DX 5327 almost hides the trailing snotbonnet with its
nice clean nose, picked up after an altercation late last year.
Note how it contrasts with the putrid shade of faded vomit on
the Toll loco. |
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| 804
approaches Otira after the crossing at Jacksons. Much to the
amusement of the Ontrackers carrying out some remedial work on
this wee bridge, I had the tripod set right down in the water
with me sitting next to it on a handy dry rock. The DC was
popped exactly as planned, but wouldn't have minded getting a
little more train in... Perhaps when nobody is looking I'll
Photoshop a carriage in... Lucky to get the blues though instead
of the dirty green grub that was in our Premier Tourist Train's
previous loco allocation. |
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| After
a slow trip over the hill during peak roadworks season, a rapid
vertical amble is required to get up the hill above Cass in
time. |
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| And
a short while later, a rare visit to one of the classic spots on
the The Cass Bank nets empty 841. And that's that then |
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