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New Zealand 1950s Steam in Color Compiled from the Derek Cross collection w/DJ
New Zealand 1950s Steam in Color Compiled from the Derek Cross collection
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 2007
200 pages
This book provides an all-colour collection of images from one of the great railway photographers of the 20th century, covering seven years of the 1950s, when colour photos of New Zealand generally were rare, let alone those of its steam trains.
It was a time when the railways, like society, were very different from today. The railways handled virtually every type of freight that was available to carry and steel rails connected not only cities and major ports, but many rural communities. The photos in this book of rakes of carriages forming mainline passenger trains and short goods trains trundling up quiet branch lines evidence a time when life was simpler and less hurried than today.
Sit back, put your feet up, and take a nostalgic journey through the New Zealand that once was, and the last decade when Steam was King.
Front cover scene: Oil fired 'Mountain' type JB 123.9 with no. 555 goods passes through the 'wild west' town ofWhangamomona on the StratfordOkahukura Line.
Back cover: 'Pacific' type AB 755 smokes up a storm as it climbs up the Otira River valley to Aickens, just before the level crossing, on the Midland Line with goods train 766 on 10 August 1959.
Above: K 903 with no. 302 goods passes through Ngongotaha on the Rotorua branch on 14 January 1957.
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