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Engine Pass New Zealand Railways by DB Leitch w dust jacket
Engine Pass New Zealand Railways by DB Leitch
Hard Cover w/dust jacket (has plastic protective cover)
184 pages
Copyright 1967
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments11
Introduction13
1 Express Steam15
2 Driving And Firing22
3 Petticoat Junction - Nzr Style36
4 Branch Lines And Byways42
5 On Goods And Through Gorges52
6 Rambling In Railcars61
7 Rimutaka Reminiscences70
8 The Growlers79
9 Diesels From The Footplate88
10 Incidents And Animals97
11 Wooden Cars Through The Backblocks104
12 On The Midland Line115
13 No Noise, No Effort124
14 Steam In The Deep South132
15 Where Diesels Fear To Tread141
16 The Great Motive Power Debate151
17 Passenger Trains160
18 The End Draws Near173
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Ka957 awaits the arrival of Train 62632
Steam up, Ka931 waits for her crew32
Ka935 beside the water-vat in the old Palmerston North city yards33
Engines prepared for the day's work at Palmerston North depot: Ka957, Ab838, Ka964, Dsc44433
Ab823 backs through the bush at the turning triangle at Ross33
Ab748 prepares to leave for Waitara48
The author watches the steam pressure gauge on Ab82348
R. B. Robinson Fireman's view from Ab74848
Aand the last days of steam in Taranaki49
Ab823 and crew at Westport49
Ab823 shunting wagons at Stillwater49
Ka935 waits for a crossing at Levin during the hours of darkness80
Geo. E. A. Nikolaison Maahunui, one of the lightweight Wairarapa railcars80
New Zealand Railways Tokomaru, one of the old standard railcars80
Rm58, one of the fast Vulcan railcars81
Two Drewry railcars coupled in multiple81
Ab758 takes in water at Masterton81
Four Fell engines on the way to the summit on the Rimutaka Incline96
New Zealand Railways View from the cab of a Da-class locomotive approaching the Makohine Viaduct96
Di1100 at Masterton on her maiden trip96
Da1463 at Levin during the loading of parcels traffic97
Dg788 hauling a long stock train at Double Bridges in the Wairarapa97
Geo. E. A. Nikolaison Ab786 hauling an enthusiasts' excursion south of Kaikoura97
Jb1205 prepares to leave Stratford on an enthusiasts' excursion112
Da1462 at the head of the Stratford-Taumarunui Mixed Train112
Ab823 filling bunker at the Greymouth coaling tower112
One of the 1,800 hp Ew-class electrics moves out of Paekakariki113
Geo. E. A. Nikolaison Three Eo-class electrics ready to haul the eastbound express through Otira Tunnel113
Two Js, a Wf, and an Ab, outside the eighteen-stall roundhouse at Greymouth113
Fireman cools off as We375 rounds the curve into Rewanui128
We375 makes ready to shunt her train at Rewanui128
A472 awaiting repairs on the West Coast128
Ww679 at the head of the Mixed Train to Rewanui129
Ab610 in mist and rain at Kumara on the Ross line129
Ab755 hauls a goods train up the serpentine grade into Kumara129
Ab755 at the head of the Wairarapa Mail crossing the old Waiohine Bridge144
New Zealand Railways Ja1270 roars out of Christchurch with the Southbound Limited144
Ja1270 receives attention to her running gear145
Abs shunting in the Palmerston North yards145
K912 cleaned up for a special occasion at Wanganui145
The last days of an old Wf K926 sitting broken and useless on the scrap track at Wanganui160
Wa386, the engine that hauled the first train over the last section of the Main Trunk in 1908160
Ka930 taking it easy at Taihape161
A-class Opossum wasting away beside the main line at Greymouth161
All photographs not otherwise credited are by the author.
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
ENGINE PASS
AN ENGINE PASS is the railway enthusiast's passport to the joys of the footplate, and D. B. Leitch has had his fair share of them... .
He has spent hundreds of happy hours riding the rails of both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, in guard's vans and carriages but more often up front on the footplate, taking his turn at firing, earning his place in the brotherhood of full-blooded railway enthusiasts.
In this book he shares with the reader the joys of his experiences. We meet drivers and firemen, guards and stationmasters, coast along Petticoat-Junction-type branch lines, feel the superb exhilaration of great expresses thundering through a winter's night, and make pious pilgrimages to the hidden sidings where old locomotives rust away....
Mr Leitch has been glad to travel diesel and electric, and writes happily of such experiences. But Steam, in all its might, majesty, dominion and power, is his hero. As the last of the sailing ships, the great clippers, were the finest flower of their kind, so were the last of New Zealand's superb steam locomotives. Arrogant in power, glorious in contour, they bequeath a matchless memory.
The photographs form an invaluable accompaniment to the text. And the jacket painting, by W. W. Stewart, presents Ka 957, the locomotive for whose footplate Mr Leitch received his first engine pass, leaving National Park under wintry conditions.
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