the Oreti Railway in New Zealand which opened in 1864 used wooden rails

This isn't to say that they didn't put iron strips on the top of the wood rails. 

the first Locomotive in Canada ran in wooden rails with iron strips fixed to the top

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3096220380566742&set=p.3096220380566742&type=3

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1965516564327069&set=gm.26883259127998760&idorvanity=1614960195255335

an abandoned '74 Alfa Romeo GTV 2000 in New Zealand gets remade, and upgraded, to a coachbuilt level of awesome

https://www.youtube.com/@HomeBuiltByJeff

B17 being worked on in NZ by Avspecs.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10239853139455935&set=pcb.3370388743137309

this is nuts... the body shop working on this Charger found a military ID from about 1971

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1321531693336904&set=pcb.1321531746670232

TR1, an NZR shunting locomotive built from a Fordson tractor, at the Petone Workshops. July 1924.

https://www.reddit.com/r/redneckengineering/comments/ktdiud/tr1_an_nzr_shunting_locomotive_built_from_a/

Kurt Sutter is making a copy of SOA, and setting it in New Zealand

Jason Momoa is poised to star in the drama that is co-created by Sons 0f Anarchy’s Kurt Sutter, and Chris Collins. 

In the violent underworld of New Zealand’s outlaw bikers, a warrior torn between two lives, two callings and two families must decide which path defines his true destiny.

In italics is the summary of SOA

The only change is New Zealand and warrior. Well, define a warrior first, I don't know that New Zealand has any warriors. Warriors are made in wars, and New Zealand has not been a part of a war since... WW2? 

That would make any WW2 participant a centenarian. Not many guys over a 100 years old can be described as warriors, so, yeah, I get it, they are trying to make hay on the whole native New Zealanders cultural heritage of tribal wars... but, without wars, or armies, what exactly is the word or words that accurately define the character they are calling a warrior? 

Because the rugby players are the toughest bunch in New Zealand from what I've seen. 

Sutter never got to explore the formative Sons of Anarchy story of biker-gang founder John Teller, and 

in 2019, Sutter was fired from his previous series, FX’s Mayans M.C., following an investigation into complaints from writers, producers, cast and crew about a hostile work environment on the show. Sutter at the time disputed the allegations — he has subsequently owned up to his past behavior — and instead put the spotlight on the “creative scrutiny of Disney,” that he claimed had created a conflict as he “pushed back. Hard.”

Sutter recently split on the Netflix series The Abandons just three weeks before the sprawling Western starring Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson is slated to wrap production in Calgary. Sutter was the executive producer/showrunner on the series, which he also created.

What is nuts, is just how damn good, and brilliant, SOA was in story, plot, pace, dialogue and casting, and that we've had to wait so damn long for another series from Sutter, that he's fully a part of, and remains connected to. 

I get it, genius creative types are impossible to work with, and impossible to ignore, as they are the only source of the incredible. That's why so many have to run solo, like Lucas with Star Wars. His vision and dialog was such a mess, but at the heart of it, a pure gem of a story. 

https://deadline.com/2025/11/jason-momoa-sons-of-anarchy-kurt-sutter-new-zealand-nomad-apple-tv-1236615405/

https://deadline.com/2024/10/kurt-sutter-exit-the-abandons-netflix-1236106758/

https://deadline.com/tag/kurt-sutter/

After approximately 75 years of burial under in sand, a150 year old steam engine (1876) was unearthed in New Zealand's South Mole dunes, still on the rails. 1 of 3 Mills A locos built for the Wanganui to Foxton railway.

The 3 locomotives were named Skunk, Opossum, and Wallaby

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1705340596974091&set=pcb.1705340633640754

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=804802565403458&set=pcb.804797378737310

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100024945015535

Joe Chamberlain brought his 69 Camaros to race at Bay Park and Pukekohe, New Zealand

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1191738632992404&set=a.461768972656044

NZ Offroader has posted a video on Instagram of an engine powered (PTO) winch that RAPIDLY moved it up a very steep hill built by the Grieves Brothers, one of them, is an elevator tech

Grieve and his brother Mark built a 1984 Suzuki Samurai for competition use. It runs a 250-horsepower Nissan SR20DET engine with a Toyota automatic and, importantly, a Land Cruiser split case transfer case to provide a power takeoff (PTO) output.

https://www.instagram.com/nzoffroader/

https://www.youtube.com/@NZOffroader/videos

https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-god-winch-can-pull-your-truck-up-a-mountain-ridiculously-fast

possibly the world's steepest street

 

railroads built in New Zealand in the 1890s were abandoned decades ago, and someone with a drone decided to see what they look like now; the Rotorua Railway Line and the Motu

 

the fundamental of building a road with a specific grade/angle, is really simple, and can be done with a bubble level, and a simple wedge that is cut to the angle/degree you want your road to be, and Marty demonstrates!

 

I get a kick out of simple engineering, as, in my opinion, REAL engineering can be accomplished using the original simple fundamentals of levels, wedges levers, etc. 

Plus, I love the surveying stuff

a penny-farthing motorcycle made from tractor parts, the brainchild of New Zealander Kenny Paton, who built this from whatever he could find in his own barn

https://newatlas.com/motorcycles/tractor-motorcycle

when Murphy's Law is showing off how much can go wrong at the same time... an 8 wheeler, low on fuel, and clutch fluid, on a narrow dirt road, dies on a curved bridge... won't start, so low on fuel it's sucking air into the fuel line from the tank, can't get out of gear, and can't release the air brakes, and nothing can pass on the road. I'm not making this up

and the fuel tank spout is under the deck. 

Aaron's Tumblin' Dice trad T.

Did you know that Segway got into the lawnmower business? MowBot has launched the Segway Navimow robotic mower in New Zealand

https://navimow.segway.com/us/product/navimow-i.html

https://www.tomsguide.com/home/smart-home/the-navimow-i110n-robot-lawn-mower-might-just-replace-your-landscapers

There was a scrapyard for ex USAAF/USN/RNZAF aircraft in New Zealand after the war.

After WWII the USAAF and RNZAF flew aircraft into Rukuhia Airfield, Hamilton New Zealand. They just turned off the engines and walked away. A local got the contract to break the aircraft up. There was still fuel in the tanks, and in some cases ammunition in the weapons.

this video is just a series of photos

https://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/threads/random-cool-photo-thread.26448/page-30#post-351577

saving an abandoned Cat D4 and getting the track back on

a double ended Dodge bush tramway in Mamaku New Zealand

 https://forum-auto.caradisiac.com/topic/376665-photos-des-trains-avec-des-anciennes/page/47/#comments

I wonder why it needed 3 rollers per corner

interesting, not many people go for the full size 1960s cars, and this 67 Galaxie stood out in the Toyo Tires Treadpass (Formerly Mopar Alley) between central and South halls at SEMA

made by Americarna in Taranaki, New Zealand

https://media.toyotires.com/SEMA2023