There are two 'museum'jobs going on. There is the Fell Engine Museum in Featherston, and the Rimutaka Railway Restoration Trust. The Fell Museum has been up aand running for quite sometime now, an excellent facility, with one off the Fell locomotives restored, and running on electric rollers. There is also a lot of Incline memorabilia there too. A quality facility. The project to reinstate the old railway line is an ambitious one.... one for the next generation (their Operations Manager is a young bloke in the office next to mine). They have completed a rolling stock depot at Mangaroa/Maymorn. I have walked, and cycled the trail many times in the last 45 years, my daughter fondly recalls the school camp we held at Summit. This summer we will be taking her children up there. Trentham Racecourse is still a going concern, and is one of the premier tracks in NZ. The Army are still established over the back of the course. The Marines hospital was actually a few miles away at Silverstream. I grew up 2 miles from there in Stokes Valley. It became a geriatric facility after the war. It closed down about 15 years ago, and is now a convention centre, with most of the original buioldings still in place. The main railway line that passed the foot of the hospital has been diverted a bit upstream (and duplicated). The original line has had the track relaid, and is now an operating railway museum.
--- In [email protected], "John" <armstong5...@...> wrote: > > I sort of forgot the correct spelling.( Age.) How is the restoration > "museum" proposal coming along? have seen photos of the tunnel. Have a video > of the line. Have you walked the trail? > > Is the Trentham race track still in use? I llived in the center stand for 5 > months. We had a hospital there for the Marines. > John Armstrong, Kirtland Ohio > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gavin > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 1:33 AM > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: NZ gauge... > > > > Spelt Rimutaka. Line closed 55 years ago, replaced by a 5½ mile tunnel. Old > line is now a walking/cycle track. Sn3½ is a very popular scale here in NZ. I > had a few mates scratching their heads, when I said I was off to America to > ride some 3'6' gauge in California... I'm told it is America's only national > monument that moves! > > Incidently, I showed a bit of American S standard gauge at the Rail-Ex show > in Wellington NZ this weekend just gone. > > --- In [email protected], "John" <armstong5717@> wrote: > > > > I sort of forgot, even with all the books I have. Rode the Rimatucka > "incline" while down there. Better than Swiss cogs even though the original > grip nsystem was there. > > > > John Armstrong > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: william cole > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 6:08 PM > > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: NZ gauge... > > > > > > > > NZ "Cape Gauge" or "Colonial Gauge" is 3',6". > > > > Bc > > > > [email protected] > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > Pink Spider: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2A9CxhsFDE&feature=related > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > "I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence." - > V > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > SUPPORT â?~â?~Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of > 2007â?Tâ?T > > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ > > http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/ceou/database.cfm#S > > > > "Have you considered my servant Job?" (Job 1:8) > > > > --- On Fri, 11/19/10, Don Thompson <don@> wrote: > > > > From: Don Thompson <don@> > > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: NZ gauge... > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Friday, November 19, 2010, 6:02 PM > > > > > > > > Dear John, > > Robin and I took a trip on the railways of Thailand. The railroad > > was built by the British and is meter gauge. I wonder if it is the > > same gauge? > > Don > > > > On Nov 19, 2010, at 5:17 PM, John wrote: > > > > > The NZ Railway gauge is 39 inches if I recall correctly. > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5634 (20101119) __________ > > > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5634 (20101119) __________ > > > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > > > http://www.eset.com > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5637 (20101121) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 5639 (20101122) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
