NEW LOCOMOTIVE
TESTS IN KING COUNTRY (From Our Oton Correspondnut) TE KUTH, Tuesday. One of the new Garrett loeomoUrs* recently purchased by the New Zsaland Railways Department, arrived St Te Kuiti on Sunday last for a series of trial runs on tracks in the Kins Country. Mr. G. S. Lynde, chit! mechanical engineer, was In charge. After a thorough test it is proposed to place this type of engine on the hilly portions of the North Island MaiTrunk line.. The engine in full trta weighs 146 tons, compared with 11 tons, the weight of an ordinary engine, and is considered the most powerful of its type in the world.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 628, 3 April 1929, Page 8
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109NEW LOCOMOTIVE Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 628, 3 April 1929, Page 8
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