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Full Name: New Zealand Railfan

Issue Number: 22

Issue Date: March 2000

Volume and Number: 6/2

Pages: 72

Page Range: 1-72

Cover Image:

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CONTENTS

Editorial: Investing In The Future

Letters

• Trentham Racecourse Sidings
• Points to Ponder
• Battling TH eGrades
• F's WA's and AB's
• Darwin to Alice Springs
• Let's Get Real
• Silver Stream Railway

Book Reviews

• Mainline Steam Trust's Preserved Locomotives
• New Zealand Locomotive and Rollingstock Handbook 2000
• Tasmanian Government Railways 1950 - 1970
• Queensland Canefields Steam Era 1950 - 1980

Video Reviews

• New Zealand Railscene Vol 21
• Tonnes of Grunt 2
• New Zealand Road Memories

Preservation Progress

• Bush Tramway Club
• Gisborne City Vintage Rail
• RM 133 railcar Trust
• Taieri Gorge Railway
• Waimea Plains Railway Trust Board
• Feildin and District Steam Rail Society
• Ohai Railway Board Museum

Rail News

• Tranz Rail Locomotive News
• Steamy New Years celebrations
• Meals on the Move
• Rail Trail Opens
• New Chief Executive for Tranz Rail
• dargaville Branch to Re-oopen

Tasrail: The Englisg Electric Evolution Part 3 - Into Preservation

Vignettes

• preserved DA's to the Rescue
• J 3251 wheelset replacement
• PK 3150 with a tyre problem
• Ballast Regulator E813 with wheels removed
• J 1250 (Diana) on the Broadway Limited
• DF at Palmerston North (old alignment)
• Alf Smith (guard) at National Park
• Alf Smith at Raurimu

Photo Stop: Looking Back 10 Years

ARTICLE: F 163 Into the Third Century

ARTICLE: Banking - Battling the GradesPart 4 Wanganui - Hawkes Bay - Wellington

Guest Commentary: So You Want To Run a Railway? by Grant Craig