IMAGE
Steam powered earth moving machine operating during railway construction at Ohakune
- Date
- [ca 1890-1930]
- Reference
- 1/1-007178-G
- Description
Steam powered earth moving machine operating during railway construction at Ohakune. Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head between 1890-1930.
Two of these machines were made for the New Zealand Railways in 1905 by Whitaker Brothers Ltd, Horsforth, Leeds. Only one survives today and is at the Silver Stream Railway museum in Upper Hutt, Wellington.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives, Orientation: Horizontal image
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