Lovely old iron horse.

[98tls]

On the way home from a ride today i saw the tell tale smoke rising and stopped and took a few pics of this old beauty.Isnt she lovely.

[98tls]

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[98tls]

And a few more.

[oldrider]

Yeh, real old but a lovely kind of goldy yellow colour though! Cheers John.

[megageoff76]

Thought this was a thread about an old skool two stroke encounter...Disappointment.

Oh well the train is kinda cool anyway.

[merv]

Certainly great for something built in 1878 (that's 130 years ago) and then dumped in the Oreti River decades ago and rescued from the river in 1985.

All credit to the restorers.

http://www.oamaru-steam.org.nz/home.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR_K_class_(1877)

You a bit of a foamer at heart 98? (That being the name given to those that foam at the mouth at such beasts).

[xwhatsit]

Iron horse, that's a good name for a motorcycle.

[98tls]

Certainly great for something built in 1878 (that's 130 years ago) and then dumped in the Oreti River decades ago and rescued from the river in 1985.

All credit to the restorers.

http://www.oamaru-steam.org.nz/home.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZR_K_class_(1877)

You a bit of a foamer at heart 98? (That being the name given to those that foam at the mouth at such beasts).

Not really merv just love most things old and mechanical i guess.Certainly is a credit to those guys.

[martybabe]

I was looking for a photo opportunity today, all I found was a tree.

Well done lovely pix.

[ynot slow]

I was looking for a photo opportunity today, all I found was a tree.

Well do the kiwi thing chop it down.

[martybabe]

Well do the kiwi thing chop it down.

This is a piccy of my bike by a stump, it aint gonna win any awards is it. The Iron horse is a clear winner.

[gijoe1313]

That is so kewl, I luvvies trains I do ...

[young1]

I thought this thread was about a new Harley model.....

No just kidding, steam engines are cool!!