More Trains

On friday afternoon we took the commuter trains from Masterton down to Wellington and then up to Tawa where we visited John and his Garden railway





After staying the night at Wayne's house we took the commuter up to Paraparaumu and got on a steam excursion train run by Steam, Inc. It followed the main line as far as Palmerston North and then went off to the east to cross back over to the Wairarapa. We just did the train one way but for those wanting a roundtrip they had a number of options for other activities. For instance, many got off the train at Woodville where there were buses waiting to take them to the horse races. At Masterton they replenished the coal supply (which came by truck from the west coast which seems pretty silly) and then returned to the west coast, picking the people up where they left them off earlier.






Turns out the locomotive was built the same year that I was.

Horsies!

Did an hour and half horseback ride today, part of which was riding through a small river