Steam train album published
Passing through the Ruapehu region this week was David Lowe, publisher of 'Such Sweet Thunder' an album of photographs commemorating the recent return
of steam power to the Main Trunk Line. It was in April that KA 945 and JA 1250 ran again on centennial excursions. The event saw thousands of people, the length of the North Island, turn out to see
the grand old locomotives in action once again. The album contains a series of colour photographs taken during the centennial journeys, as well as black and white pictures taken in the sixties by Richard Coker, which show the locomotives at their best, before their "retirement" from service. The photographs include shots taken in Waiouru, Horopito and Erua. There are forty-five photographs in total, many featuring the North Island's magnificent scenery. One thousand of the 3,500 print run of the albums were pre-sold to rail enthusiasts, but a limited supply has been ' made available to bookshops in the Ruapehu region.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 7, 9 July 1985, Page 4
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165Steam train album published Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 3, Issue 7, 9 July 1985, Page 4
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