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Trains were always a passion of mine, nice to hear your kind comments.

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

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. 👍

That's a bit sad, but enjoy the scenery and other passengers.

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.

True, although my favourite is "Moving the Pulp" czcams.com/video/R64Pl4H6yfY/video.htmlsi=yOCY9PdtbGmQUPIe

True 😥

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.

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. 😊

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. 😢

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.

Itwas a very good exhibition, I agree. 👍

Hi Grant, yes of course, help yourself.

Hi might I suggest you try to contact any of the organisers of any of the following events. trainshows.co.nz/

Hi thanks for your comment. I don't believe I used the GX industry mod. But thanks for the information.

Pleased you enjoyed it.

You are most welcome, Pleased you enjoyed it.

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.

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.

Hi Tony, I'm pleased you enjoyed the experience.

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.

Thanks for the glowing comments. Glad you enjoyed it.

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Thanks. Lots and lots more to do. Still enjoying it at the moment.

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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

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.

Thanks Marie and many thanks for arranging photos of the area from that era.

@@rolandpenhall4526 My pleasure 😊

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

Hi John, thanks, glad you enjoyed it.