kiwitrainguy.aka.DennisGandy

My name is Dennis and I've been a train enthusiast since 1965. You will see from my playlists that I am also interested in music.

The first still photo I ever took was of Ww 571 in September 1969 at the tender age of 11 (me that is, not the loco!). The first motion picture I ever took was at Easter 1972 of J 1236 & Ja 1250 in the Manawatu Gorge about a month before I turned 14.

I took the background photo (above) at Bad Ischl in Austria on 24th June 1987. The E18 was built in the 1930s and this one was probably the only one still working at the time. Marklin & Trix have produced a model of this loco when it was in this colour scheme.

My profile pic is of J 1211 (in streamlined form as originally fitted in 1939) on the Gisborne Line taken at Easter 1989.