Engine Pass New Zealand Railways. By D. B. Leitch

Hardback foxing spots to front end, minor marks, edges scuffed and bumped. Dust jacket scuffed, chipped, and closed tears to edges. First Edition. gilt title to spine, Illustrated with b&w photographs and maps to end papers, copy of old Engine Pass on back cover.

The author has spent hundreds of happy hours riding the rails of both the North and South Islands of New Zealand, in guard's vans and carriages but more often up front on the footplate, taking his turn at firing, earning his place in the brotherhood of full-blooded railway enthusiasts. We meet the drivers and firemen, guards and stationmasters, coast along Petticoat-Junction-type branh lines, feel the suberb exhilaration of great expresses thundering through a winter's night, and make pious pilgrimages to the hidden sidings where old locomotives rust away.

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