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Roland Penhall
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My Legions Defend against an attack by the Picentes
This 14 minute video clip from within the game of Rome II.
The in-game footage was captured using nVidea Shadowplay.
The editing was done using Pinnacle Studio 21.
This is the same footage as I uploaded yesterday, except I removed the section where there was no picture showing.
The in-game footage was captured using nVidea Shadowplay.
The editing was done using Pinnacle Studio 21.
This is the same footage as I uploaded yesterday, except I removed the section where there was no picture showing.
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Dew Lakes with the Nelson Tramping Club Nov, 2004
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This was my final Tramping Trip. Now I just watch TV and play games.
Oroua River Trip, Jan 21 22 1981
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This 4 minute video is from my collection of Super 8, silent movie film. On January 21 and 22, 1981. Myself, Shorty Walker, my youngest son Ricky and a relative Leonard Richards, did a tramp to the Oroua River.
Rangiwahia Ski Hut Overnight Trip Jan 3rd 1981
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This short video was taken originally on Super 8 silent film. The Trampers were myself, my youngest son Ricky and a family relative, Leonard Richards. The original Film has been scanned on my Wolverine Movie Maker digitizer.
1982 May Tramp to Waitewaewae Hut
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This trip was filmed using my 8mm Movie Camera. I'm quite sure it was my Canon 814, which was a very good model. The tramp was to be 7 days, but due to the weather we ended it a day earlier. I had hoped to reach the Hut on the first day, but I was over optimistic. Here is a current link to anyone wanting to read about this area. tramper.nz/165/whytowhywhy-a-route-guide-for-waitewaewae/
The Climb to Kime
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This video is of a tramping trip into the Tararua Ranges, back in August of 1982. The video footage taken from my collection of Super 8 silent film. Our party of four were Myself, my two sons, Brett and Ricky and a friend and work colleague, Grant Chalk. It was a three day trip. Friday, August 5th to Field Hut, where it was a very cold night. Saturday Chalky, Brett and Myself pushed on to Kime ...
1983 6 day Tramp, in the Tararua Ranges
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This is another from my 8mm movie collection. It starts at the Kiriwhakapapa Road-end, where Shirley and Mary have dropped off the 6 Family group, for their 6-day Tramp. The party of 6 are Myself and 2 sons, Brett and Ricky. My brother Bob and his son Peter and another nephew John Lowe. Our tramp takes us up to the Blue Range Hut for the first night, then down to the Waingawa River to Cow Creek...
1982 March 7th Day Trip to South Ohau Shelter
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A short 3 minutes of a trip into the Tararua Ranges, a little east of Levin. The party of 4 were Myself, my 2 sons Brett and Ricky and their cousin Riccardo.
1982 March 20th Coppermine Track from Wharite TV Transmitter to Coppermine Creek
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Some more footage from my 8mm film collection. I hope you enjoy the journey from the top of the Ruahine Range.
1982, April 3rd and 4th to Waiopehu Hut in the Tararua Ranges
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This trip is another from my 8mm Home Movie Collection. We start again at the back of Levin, over the single lane swing bridge to the signing in shelter. The track is steep but better underfoot than the tracks from the Otaki Forks area. The Waiopehu Hut is at an elevation of 2,600 feet. The party of four include myself, my two sons Brett and Ricky and their cousin Neil Richards.
1975 76 Mt Holdsworth Tramping Trip
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This Double Family Trip of 12, takes us into the Tararua Ranges, west of Masterton. After Driving from Palmerston North, we parked the cars at the Holdsworth Lodge carpark and walked through to Donnellys Flat for our first night under 'canvas'. The next day we were to have lunch at Mountain House and proceed to Powell Hut. Unfortunately, I had been overly optimistic and lunch was eaten well bef...
1982 December 13th-17th 5 Day Tramp in the Tararuas
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Myself, Raymond Rye and my two nephews, Leonard and John are dropped off near the end of the Putara Road, from Eketahuna. We tramp to the Roaring Stag Hut for our first night. Next night is at Cattle Ridge Hut, then a very eerie walk along the Cattle Ridge in very thick cloud, having to use compass and Map to avoid going down a blind ridge. We spend the third night under canvas at Cow Creek. Th...
Nelson Model Railway Exhibition 2008
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This is the complete footage of the 2008 NMRX. I had accidently deleted part 2, so decided to join it with part 1. It is now 47 minutes of viewing.
Nelson Model Railway Exhibition 2010
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This is part 2 of 2 to replace the 14 short video clips I had originally uploaded. This will make it easier to view the complete Exhibition. I hope you enjoy this old footage. The length of this section is 57 minutes.
Nelson MRX 2010 Introduction
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This short clip is 1 of 2 replacements for my original 14 short clips of the Nelson Model Railway Exhibition of 2010. The Main Layouts follow on the next upload.
Big Model Train Show Christchurch 2011
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Big Model Train Show Christchurch 2011
1982, April 17th, 18th, to Burn Hut, in the Tararua Ranges
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1982, April 17th, 18th, to Burn Hut, in the Tararua Ranges
New Plymouth Model Engineering Society Labour Weekend 1978
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New Plymouth Model Engineering Society Labour Weekend 1978
Milson School Gala 1978 with Palmerston North Model Engineering Club
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Milson School Gala 1978 with Palmerston North Model Engineering Club
Wanganui Model Engineers and Experimental Society track gets a visit in 1978
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Wanganui Model Engineers and Experimental Society track gets a visit in 1978
"O" Gauge layouts of Jack Grey and Norm Cameron. Masterton
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"O" Gauge layouts of Jack Grey and Norm Cameron. Masterton
Palmerston North Model Engineering Club 1977 1978 {Rescanned Version}
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Palmerston North Model Engineering Club 1977 1978 {Rescanned Version}
Nelson Model Railway Exhibition March, 2024
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Nelson Model Railway Exhibition March, 2024
The Great Northern route over the Cascadian range
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The Great Northern route over the Cascadian range
Shunting the Gas Works, Palmerston North
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Shunting the Gas Works, Palmerston North
An issue in Train Simulator using Google Map
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An issue in Train Simulator using Google Map
But our NZR Team of, Caroline Cornwall, Abe Knap, Ray Hawkins and Dave Stewart gave it a good shot. West Coast coal miner Robin Hughes had a crack at the world record for shovelling half a ton of coal, sadly he failed by only two seconds to take the record. Info from staff news Dec 1979, issued by General Managers Office, New Zealand Railways, Wellington.👍
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Those dreams you followed Roly made you one of the kindest in inspirational people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing. While most of 23 Carlisle Street was completed by the time I joined NZR. Many a time as I climbed the bank into Cambridge street on a weekend from the shunting yards to head home to our railway house, I would often hear the neighbourhood kids expressing delight in riding your fantastic rail setup. Seeing my little daughter in video two, cementing her place in a wagon for a trip around your home railway reminded me of precious days long since passed. Thanks for the memories Roly, take care Sir, was a real pleasure knowing you.😊👍
Trains were always a passion of mine, nice to hear your kind comments.
Hi Roland, I dont know if you will see this but I was wondering if you knew my Dad Barry Floyd. I have photo's in an old album of his with a few of them having the name "Rolly" attached. I know there easily could be others with the name but thought if it is you, you may be interested to see them.
Hi Warren, yes I knew your Dad "Barry", he was my very first Driver once we moved to the Milson Yard complex. He was a very nice chap. That would have been about 1965. I was shocked to hear he had died, after I came back to the job in the 1970's. Later I worked with your Uncle Ray, we were both Shunters in the Milson Yard and both of us had worked as Farm Fencing Contractors in the early 1970's. I would indeed like to see the photos, thankyou for the offer. My contact address is rbpofnelson.nz@xtra.co.nz
Interesting.. this locomotive seems to reuse engine noises from the IHH Class 08. (no, not the RSC one) This route also seems to have some old IHH locos in here too from what I can tell on the steam page, but I'm not sure.
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Hi Kev, Gosh its all so long ago.
@@rolandpenhall4526 Yes Mate, all so long ago. I been looking through the few photos from them days, found a shot taken from light tower in Shunting yard, as far as I dared to climb looking down North End toward shunters hut. A couple of images of Silver Fern Railcar that was coming into yard after hitting the stock truck near Feilding. One of 'Ivannoe' parked up near NTR Shed, and one of a shunters wagon slightly bent, buckled and NTR after a slight in yard blue. Surprise of all I found a copy of 'Staff News' December of 1979, about 'Operation Rose City', with my then little daughter on front cover sitting in driver's seat of a DA. Yes great Memories Rolly, of the past before leaving for Qld. Take Care Mate and Thanks for those Memories.👍👍 Do you still run ya train around the outside of the house?The kids use to love it🙂👍
@@kevlemberg4269 No sold all the track to the Wanganui Model Engineers way back about 1985, was about to move into a house we had built in Cloverlea Crescent. I now live in Nelson.
@@rolandpenhall4526 Ah you finally saw the light and moved to the mainland, onya Rolly. 👍
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Doing this trip tomorrow, and most weeks actually, from Waikanae. Interesting to see how it was back in the day. I miss the old British Mk2 coaches. The new ones are rubbish! Less room, less storage, less comfortable, non vestibule doors. Just awful.
That's a bit sad, but enjoy the scenery and other passengers.
I thought I was going to see the layout you did.
Aha, yes I see what you would be expecting. I just rewatched it and I can see what you mean, the beginning sounds like you would see the whole rail network. If I can at some time, take another look. I do think I still have access to a save of the route.
"PromoSM"
That's your best video. Had a real story to it.
True, although my favourite is "Moving the Pulp" czcams.com/video/R64Pl4H6yfY/video.htmlsi=yOCY9PdtbGmQUPIe
What shame the windscreen wipers weren't working
True 😥
Kinda miss the footbridge at pram.
For watching the trains or was it for easy access to home and shops?
@@rolandpenhall4526 About 2003 I grabbed the camcorder, came up from Porirua, and did some recording. I've long lost the original footage, much of which wasn't the best quality, but I did manage to get a shot or two from the footbridge. The beginning of this clip is at Paraparaumu: czcams.com/video/lGLamkVBi4c/video.htmlsi=XbhREQtH7Boce_jw
@@richardvoogd705 Thanks for the link to your old footage, which I quite enjoyed, bought back memiries of that area.
Thanks 🙏 Roly. Shared to OPN.
Thanks Roly 🙏 Shared to OPN.
All Good, so many people enjoy the outdoors and maybe it may be an encouragement to some who are not so sure if they should give it a go. 😊
LOVE this video... Thanks for sharing... Brings back great memories of walking the track in my childhood. I only walked in via the creek route. The track from Wharite that you took looks much more challenging.
Thanks for that. Yes much more of a challenge, but the first time I tried coming in from the creek, I missed the track and continued to the top via the right side of the creek. Now that was a shocking bush crash. First managing to get under the "Matagouri bushes" then as the elevation increased they became smaller and we had to climb over them. 😢
Great video roly.dave from the pack house.
Hi Dave, Did you go see the Exhibition this year? Hows work at the Pack House?
@@rolandpenhall4526 .yes went to the exhibition,gave up the pack house eight years ago.
Great exhibition, gave up the pack house eight years ago.
Fantastic exhibit! Love the detail and especially appreciate the effort!
Itwas a very good exhibition, I agree. 👍
Hi Roland - would you mind if we linked your wonderful old video (which I have just found) with the ASME website? Grant Anderson (ASME Treasurer)
Hi Grant, yes of course, help yourself.
At 1.18mins, the blue F is Dave Giles one - or his mates - they built two together.
Hi Roland. I have a collection of liama trains, tracks and accessories I would like to donate to one of the collectors. Please can you try get hold of me.
Hi might I suggest you try to contact any of the organisers of any of the following events. trainshows.co.nz/
Nice shame there aren't many New Zealand mods even 4 years after there is still only the DL class on the workshop. Out of interest did you use the GX industry mod to add a steel mill to the map because the forestry chain withers off after a couple of years as there is no end product being produced at the tool factory.
Hi thanks for your comment. I don't believe I used the GX industry mod. But thanks for the information.
That rusty track has been left unused for so long now that it has been cover by ballast over time and only just now raised back up
Great non-Woke ride!
Pleased you enjoyed it.
That was very enjoyable! Many thanks.
You are most welcome, Pleased you enjoyed it.
Gee i would love to do a full on trip around the hole of the north inland both ways
Roland, could I please use a few clips of your footage for a short homemade youtube video?
Hi you certainly can make use of my footage. Just one thing can you let me know when you have it completed, as I would be interested in seeing your footage.
@@rolandpenhall4526 Thanks very much Roland! Nothing fancy, but happy to show you the end result. I'm fascinated with this era of NZ (too young to understand at the time) so I've been putting these little videos together from bits of footage found to help understand why and how things changed the way they did (with a bit creative licence thrown in).
Hi Roland... this is sort of what I had in mind.. I just wanted to show a little bit of the history and along with your footage, the clip of Ian Turner was a great find. If I come across any other info, photos or footage, I'll update it. A full doco just on the Workshops would have been amazing to see. Cheers. czcams.com/video/wB8xadtqvko/video.html
@@CHewittMedia Thanks for that link.
A pleasant ride, thank you.
Dam paraparaumu is so diffrent now
Love the content, envious to be able to ride in the cab.
It used to be relatively easy in the day, not sure how it is today. Do you know anyone on the railway that could help you get access? If not then perhaps contact a Suoervisor of your nearest Locomotive Depot.
Nice
Great Video Roland, Great to see the drivers view, thanks for sharing
Hi Tony, I'm pleased you enjoyed the experience.
Love it nice music and great cab rides I'll dance to this
Thanks. Just curious as to whether you were ever a shunter at Palmerston North in the 1980's?
@@rolandpenhall4526 1985 only I was younger back then and I use to sit outside by the road every day in the Waikato watching trains go past from age 3 till now I'm 42 been a train fan ever since I was born in 1980 so now love your cab ride expedition alpine I remember the sliver fern train and all the old locomotives and love the steam engine loco DL DC and others love the sound of the engine loco.. your welcome bud thank you for your CZcams videos any more cab rides from this year and the last two decades ago
Being on a shunter in Huntly
@@robertalexander9979Hi I hadn't noticed your reply from 2 months ago until just now. Why I asked was because I new a Robert (Bob) Alexander when we were both "Shunters" in the Milson Marshalling Yard in Palmerston North in the 1980s. You are obviously not him as he would be at least IMO about 20 years older than yourself. Glad you enjoyed the video. Nowadays I just play Railway games.
Great video and loved the commentary which was quite funny at times. My dad was a loco engineer for NZ Rail his whole life. He would have loved this video!
Thanks for the glowing comments. Glad you enjoyed it.
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recently saw loco 30232 in the workshops in hutt! also love these classic videos! :) (the loco u were taking back to Palmy)
Talk about the perfect office. 😮😅.
Very cool, it's coming together nicely
Thanks. Lots and lots more to do. Still enjoying it at the moment.
How to become a locomotive engineer in New Zealand. My dream job.
Cool, but I guess the hardest audience is the daughter of the farmer who ran the dairy farm where the train was being shunted!! I remember those trains well - from mid-1963 when we took over that farm. And avoiding the trains running into our cows that crossed the tracks twice daily. So in case anyone thinks otherwise, we didn't also make them swim to the cowshed. Simply, the terrain is a bit flattened in the video in other words. I'll have to share some more farm aerial photos with you Roland. Lots of memories of that era. Good to see it all either way 🙂
Thanks Val, I did think the landscaping, needed a bit more drastic work. I will see if I can do a bit more. Looking forward to some more photos. It appears the farm went close to Humes Pipes siding, if so do you happen to have any photos of that area?
@@rolandpenhall4526 Yes. The farm backed on to Hume Pipes and various other stopping points. The biscuit factory there (Griffins ?) was also a train stopping point just before reaching Humes (from our direction, but the opposite side of the tracks). To that one you could add a whole swarm of Clyde Crescent kids stealing biscuits from it and taking them across to our hayshed to eat them. Dad did quite well out of snacks found abandoned in the hayshed - then my younger brothers tried the same trick and Dad went and paid for what they had pinched. He wasn't impressed. I've also (several weeks ago) done research on the fuel depots - which I remember extremely well from about 1960 before we moved to the Napier Road farm. Prior to that we had gone to Roslyn School. Shunting happened then as school finished for the day - which was crazy
@@valburr9595 Oh I do recall shunting all of those sidings as a shunter in the mid 1970's until the early 1980's. Then there was an extra siding for a grain company on the same side as the biscuit company which I believe was Aulsbrooks, at that time. Yes there was a restriction put on for shunting those petrol sidings and Vibrapak siding, all close to the Tremain Avenue railway crossing.
@@rolandpenhall4526 Aulsebrooks (just had to check spelling) sounds right. I'll have to ask my brother. Actually I think he owns their subsequent factory which also had a siding at one time. In 1987 I was involved with a protest to try to convince NZR (or whatever its name was at the time) to stop shunting over the road at 3:00pm when the kids were going home from Roslyn School. I remember that well
This is fantastic, the detail in the environment is great with the pond and the ranges in the background even the dairy farmers crossing at the top of the terrace. I don't know if they would have shunted with the main engine or had a little shunting engine in the yard. How long did it take you to put this all together?
Thanks, there is a lot more detail to be added. Dairy cows are certainly to be added to the scene as well as some lush green grass. You are most likely right, the Ka class would probably be too heavy for the tracks, most likely it would have been the Ab or Bb class. Just this section of the route has taken many hours, I have been working off and on the whole route for a couple of months or so. I have many photos and could do with some of the sidings, like Humes and the petrol sidings. Much more to do.
@@rolandpenhall4526 I have a photo of a Bb working at the Whakarongo goods yard in 1948 (taken by Gordon Bennett, who then lived in one of the houses - the train driver, not the bookshop owner!!!)
@@valburr9595 That would be a great photo to have. Gordon "Ginger" Bennett, was the first driver I worked with after my receiving my Fireman's Ticket in 1964. Then in December of 1988, we both left the Railways on the same day. I took redundancy, his was probably retirement.
@@rolandpenhall4526 Its in the book I wrote called 'A Time of Transition' about Whakarongo, along with other photos you'd like to see. I did a chapter on the local railway system, and the Whakarongo Deviation that never happened - but which now includes McLeavey Drive and several small bridges (more correctly culverts) that still survive.
@@valburr9595 Hi I have tried to purchase the book from Mighty Ape, Fishpond, Whitcoulls and Amazon, but no luck. But I have located it through our local library, there are copies at Palmerston North and Wellington, so I have ordered one to check out.
Brilliant 🚂
Thanks Marie and many thanks for arranging photos of the area from that era.
@@rolandpenhall4526 My pleasure 😊
IWAS A SHUNTER IN PALMERSTON NORTH IN 1960s IN 1968 WAS WHEN THE SOUTH ISLAND WENT TO DEISEL'S LOCOs I NEVER SAW A DJ IN PALMERSTON NORTH LOCO AT ALL SO ITS NOT IN 1960s
You did'nt notice my comment in the last paragraph. I worked in the Palmerston North loco branch from late 1963 until early 1966, and the only mainline Diesels were the Da. There were the Dsc started back during that time.
Have you reported it on the forums? Love your cab ride videos by the way.
Someone came up with the answer to my problem. Quote: "Stupid question (probably) but you don't have a section of track lain below the terrain do you? Have you looked under and gotten to the bottom of the chasm? I've had rogue track half a mile in the air before now with no real clue how or when I got it there so it stands to reason there could be some half a mile below. It may be that the "snap to" tool is getting confused and snapping to that instead see. Just a thought anyway." End Quote He was right.
@@rolandpenhall4526 oh thats great, train sim can definitely have some weird moments at times!
nice video but why did the driver change from train to car? seems rediculous when we need to reducing the use of cars
Basically it came down to Drivers hours which I think were a maximum of 10 hours IIRC. If a crew were going to exceed that time then a fresh crew would be dispatched by car to relieve them. All part of safety for drivers of Transport vehicles.
Commentary drawl fucking boring. FFS
The locos with road numbers are confusing. I didnt realise the DFs ever had road numbers.
All locos in NZ had numbers allocated to them. At various times in the long history of NZ railways, many were changed for a variety of reasons.
@@rolandpenhall4526 Ah yes. Im just used 6000 or 7000 series numbers for DFs 5000 numbers for Dxs and 1000 numbers for DBrs etc, as a way of ID'ing loco types
This brought back memories. I was the F-15C pilot in the air show and this was my last demonstration prior to transferring from Kadena Air Base JA to Nelles AFB NV where I flew F-5s for 5+ years. There's another film of this show that I found by accident several years ago: "Ohakea Air Show NZ Airforce Day 28 February 1981" posted by Michael Herman. Apparently, he found this stored with a bunch of stuff he received from South Africa. I would really like to know how his film went from NZ to SA and back. As for me, I'm still kicking at 75.
And I believe the Earnest Kemp is still sailing on the Lake 👍
Nice one Rolly , i remember a couple of guys in the film, how much the yard has change, good old days
At the beginning at the Station, the Guard was Barry Jones, The Train Examiner was ? The Platform Foreman was ? Three people running the Dsc Shuttle were: Driver of Dsc 454 was Ross Allen and the two acting guards were shunters Paul and Ken Meehan.
This is a really great video to watch, thanks for making it.
Hi John, thanks, glad you enjoyed it.