Auckland - Wellington Scenic Daylight Express model
Loading...
Uploaded by Pullisto on Sep 6, 2010
The Scenic Daylight was a diesel hauled summer holiday express train that ran between Auckland and Wellington from the early 1960s to 1972, hauled by General Motors Da class locos, initially the batch built by Clyde Engineering in NSW, Australia, and later the GMD plant in London Ontario, Canada. This faithful SN3.5 scale model faithfully reproduces Clyde built Da, no, 1432, and matching red/silver 56ft carriages, in pleasing North Island Main Trunk Line settings and infrastructure of the period, including the old curved Hapuawhenua Viaduct (now a walkway beside the replacement viaduct) . And many will remember the then ubiquitous NZR Road Services Bedford SB bus... Set to apt period music flavour to capture the era; 'Theme from a Summer Place' by Percy Faith and Orchestra.
A reminder of the good ole days when we really had a railway!
Model is at Museum of Transport and Technology, Western Springs, Auckland.
Editor's notes; The video does go round almost three times, but it would have not seemed right to cut the tune out after one minute...
Many thanks to my mate JonathanG who assisted by creating fade in/outs, titles and put the music score on for this video, a part of computers I've not done much with.
Uploader Comments (Pullisto)
All Comments (7)
-
@JonathanG Well, it depends which end of the horn your lookin at, Shag! ha ha, parp parrp!
1:25
Steam train Ja1271 heads north to Napier Art Decoby vidmem1,126 views- 0:21
Graeme Buckley N scale layout. part4by beaka50245 views
- 2:11
S Scale model railways Da1405 on Hamilton Club Layout 16-07-2010 with sound.MPGby NeilWardnz888 views
- 4:05
STAGECOACH AUCKLAND CITY DEPOT/ (BUS DRIVERS CHECK THIS OUT).by MrPaulmcgrath3,577 views
- 0:17
NZR 1by phillipiancossar1,200 views
- 4:10
Da 1431 on Tararua Scenic Daylight/ visit to Paihiatua Railcar Societyby Pullisto878 views
- 0:37
S Scale NZR Model Railway Df1505 1 with soundby NeilWardnz2,507 views
- 8:50
Finished N scale train setby wallyrussell16,594 views
- 2:54
KiwiRail EO and Ganz-Mavag electric test train Paraparaumu NZ 16 Jan 2011by vert9992,036 views
- 1:03
S Scale NZR Model Railway Da1405 2 with soundby NeilWardnz973 views
- 5:56
Auckland and Overlander journeyby radical801,217 views
- 5:33
Auckland to Wellington: an 8 hour trip in 5 minutesby subbasshead1,010 views
- 0:45
One Track Mindsby BigModelTrainShow2,091 views
- 4:42
Helix Elevation Kits for Model Trainsby AshlinDesigns11,616 views
- 0:17
S Scale NZR home layout - Road Crossingby F205441,271 views
- 3:34
Daylight Runby SCOverthehill5,985 views
- 2:14
11.48am out of Wellingtonby MartyJM013,901 views
- 2:14
FS2004 Air New Zealand Wellington to Auckland *FULL FLIGHT*by Virginbluepilot271,426 views
- 0:32
S Scale NZR Model Railway Da1405 1 with soundby NeilWardnz3,798 views
As the guy who keeps this railway running, may I thank you for sharing this clip.
bigkiwimike 1 year ago
@bigkiwimike You are most welcome, it was possibly you that I was talking to when I visited. It's a credit to you, and your group. Take a bow...
Pullisto 1 year ago
"Darlin' you got to let me know...should I suck or should I blow."
JonathanG 1 year ago
@JonathanG PS; just for anyone else reading this, it's a bit of a private joke with my mate here, as a slightly squirly character once asked me "do train horns suck or blow?" (as we all know they use compressed air) and we still are amused at being asked...
Pullisto 1 year ago
@Pullisto Oh 'n are we how...ha!
JonathanG 1 year ago
@JonathanG He'd have gotten a 'big A' grade for asking that question, I don't think, eh...
Pullisto 1 year ago