New Design, Di Class

A new design finished this week, the Di class in nz120 scale. Ready for a test print.

The New Zealand DI class locomotive was a class of diesel-electric locomotive in New Zealand. They were built by English Electric Australia. The class is very similar to the Queensland Rail 1620 class locomotives. At the time of their introduction, the class was seen as an alternative to the DB class for use on lightly laid secondary and branch lines, more so in the South Island, however the IMF financed introduction of the Japanese built DJ class in 1968 ensured that no further DI class locomotives were purchased by the Railways Department. - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pictures of the actual prototype

Photo taken by Ken Devlin, found on kiwibonds website. http://www.kiwibonds.com/KenDevlin/Pagebatch1.html

My last scratch built loco, built in 2012, will probably end up forgotten somewhere..