Shunting loco Tr189
Our first complete locomotive - TR937 - arrived at Maymorn on Friday 30th July 2010. The locomotive will be used for shunting and track construction work at Maymorn, and will play a key role in future reinstatement of the Rimutaka Incline Railway from Maymorn to Kaitoke, Summit and Cross Creek.
TR937 was one of nine 20-tonne shunting locomotives built to this design at the New Zealand Railways Hillside Workshops in Dunedin during the 1970s. Working in the Manawatu for much of its life, it had been stored out of service in Wellington for over a year before being purchased by the Trust.
Updates for Shunting loco Tr189 project
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Tr189 briefly outside |
Today we completed long overdue rail replacement work on road 1 of the shed yard, which necessitated moving Hillside Tr189 briefly outside. Although a deeper red than applied to many Tr class locomotives, the bumble-bee stripes on the headstocks are authentic, traced over remnant marks found of the the original paintwork. |
Maymorn, Shunting loco Tr189 | 3 December 2011 |
| Paint job on Tr189 progressing nicely |
On Saturday 29 August 2011 we will have secured the rail vehicle shed in, which will enable us to remove protective corrugated iron from windows of Tr189 |
Shunting loco Tr189 | 26 August 2011 | |
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Shunting locomotive arrives at Maymorn |
Our first complete locomotive - TR937 - arrived at Maymorn on Friday 30th July 2010. The locomotive will be used for shunting and track construction work at Maymorn, and will play a key role in future reinstatement of the Rimutaka Incline Railway from Maymorn to Kaitoke, Summit and Cross Creek. |
Maymorn, Shunting loco Tr189 | 31 July 2010 |
