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Back in the blue TranzRail days, Dx locos 5264, 5460, 5483, 5431 and 5387 head across the Bealey River with an empty coal train.
The first three locos are a fresh set of banker locos on their way from Christchurch. The old set left on a loaded coal train earlier in the day, headed to Christchurch for servicing after a hard week's work bringing loaded coal trains through the Otira tunnel.
The third loco will be the banker leader when facing east leaving Otira - as the lead loco in the tunnel, it didn't need to be equipped with the chutes that suck cooler air from beneath the running boards at this time. The other locos don't seem to have been fitted with the blower/equipment chutes behind the cab on the driver's side at this stage, except for 4th loco 5431. This has a black chute and yellow cab - obviously the Tranz Rail corporatization is about to plumb its lowest depths. And speaking of scrap metal drives, those two CW coal wagons have recently been cut up.
28 July 2002
Favourite picture of my rugrat nephews. They were helping our serving the less fortunate at Caribbean Paradise Restaurant for a free Christmas Dinner 2002.
These rugrats mean the world to me. Love them to death!
Being the highest point in Switzerland 4,634m, Monte Rosa is also one of the most extreme places. The average air pressure is about half of that of the sea level (56%) and the temperature can reach as low as −40 °C. Owing to the frequent prevalence of high winds from the east or north-east, and the slow pace at which it is possible to move when near the top, precautions against cold are particularly requisite when climbing Monte Rosa. The permanent snow line is located at about 3,000 metres. In the background Lyskamm 4,527m is just catching the first rays with mist on the pointy summit of Pollux 4,092m.
M100WCM is seen at the head of Campbeltown Loch (I wish you were whisky, Campbeltown Loch oh aye) having just arrived from Glasgow in early 2002. M100WCM was new as Y486HUA but quickly re-registered M100WCM which had been carried by M609RCP which (together with similar M826RCP) was traded against this and its sister. They were the last pair delivered on the SB3000 chassis, before replacement by the SB4000, and the first pair delivered in the new Citylink livery. They were almost THE first in that livery but were pipped to the post by P281XYS of Stagecoach Glasgow.
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The team from Wild Boar Catering - Gerfried von Kynhoff (left) from Bo'ness, and Jock Samuel from Musselburgh roasted a whole pig at the Abbey Medieval Fayre in August, 2002. Gerfried had started roasting the pig five hours earlier at 8am.
A mission trip to Rand, West Virginia in 2002 through Youth Works
A mission trip to Rand, West Virginia in 2002 through Youth Works