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No 777 --Early days at the Petone track
5" gauge, 1" scale 2-8-2 tender loco, designed and
built by Harold Sinclair. This was Harold's first
"big" engine and led to his building 7 1/4" gauge
models of narrow gauge prototypes, examples of which
are in use around the world
The club held its 50th Anniversary last year.
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No 66
Harold Sinclair's loco, No.66 took to the track, with
its own tender, for the first time on Sunday 26 July
1999. It is a 2-6-2 outside framed loco
following the pattern of Harold's earlier locos of
this wheel arrangement.
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No 66
Gavin McCabe, the owner of No 66, is driving. He
looks slightly pleased with it!
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Speedy
Speedy is a club loco built by members many years ago
its is used for steam driver training. Blastpipe
Editor Peter Anderson taking Speedy for a run at the
Raumati club track
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Speedy
Speedy at the beach steaming bays being readied for a
run by John Fergusson
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Speedy and Hercules II
Henry Cuttriss running #2970, and Alastair Maciver
with Speedy
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Bridget
Brian Wheeler having fun with Bridget!
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Springbok
Charlie Lear stops for a quick photo while running
Springbok
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No 99
On the weekend of 29/8/99, Harold Sinclair ran his
new Mallet, #99, but with the tender off #26. The
colours don't quite hit it off together! The loco
colour is 'John Deere Green' from Protective Paints
and is the same colour as Brian Wheeler's 'Bridget'.
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Broken River Railroad #26
#26 in the station. John Olsen is standing behind the
diesel, Quentin McLachlan is driving #26, and Harold
Sinclair contemplates the paintwork.
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Broken River Railroad #26
Harold Sinclair's loco, heading down the grade from
the beach with Richard McLachlan at the regulator.This
engine had its first steamup in January 1996 but its
tender was not completed until the middle of the year.
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Harry
One of the newest locos in the club but maybe the
longest in construction. Started in the late 1980's.
Pete completed his fathers Rob Roy in 2010
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Harry Load Test
What was meant to be a test of pulling an empty wagon
for the first time. However club members climbed
aboard for the photo opportunity .
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