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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 3 (June 1, 1934.)
A Letter from Japan
A Letter from Japan
Writing to the editor of the “New Zealand Railways Magazine,” a young Japanese railway enthusiast, Yosizane Yoneda, Daigo, Fusimi-ku, Kyoto City, Japan, expresses a wish to be placed in communication with a collector of railway photographs in New Zealand. We have pleasure in reproducing his letter in the hope that it may catch the eye of an interested reader:-
“I am a student of the Third Imperial College and twenty years old, and taking up the mechanical engineering, particularly the locomotive engineering. And I should like to collect photographs of locomotives, cars, famous trains, etc., of various countries in the world, and so I wish to have a chance to know someone who have a interests in railway photograph collection in New Zealand and exchange photographs with him. Would you please to have a kindness to introduce someone to me?”
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Main Trunk Viaduct Story, No. I. Told By The Camera.
The Makohine Viaduct, 750ft. long and 240ft. high.
The Mangaweka Viaduct, 940ft. long and 154ft. high.
The Makohine and Mangaweka viaducts are crossed by the Main Trunk train in a matter of seconds, but they took years to build, and in the early portion of this century Parliament had the task of finding large sums to prevent delay on these key works from hindering the northward extension of the railway. All eyes then were concentrated on the line of steel crawling up the valley of the Rangitikei, whose great papa bluffs loom in the photograph. These giant viaducts should be more than merely accepted by us to-day. They are achievements of the highest credit to their generation.