New DM class locomotives for KiwiRail arrive at Lyttelton, New Zealand

[@cb0860]

Wow! I came across your KZbin channel and discovered a "theology of the railway". I am a protestant pastor in Switzerland, using the train several times a week to go to work or to meetings (often Stadler vehicles with standard or metric gauge), regularly looking at what the Churches of the United Kingdom produce, because they are very creative ("The Fresh Expressions movement", "Messy Church" for example). But I had not thought of this idea produced in New Zealand: to combine the train with the Bible. Thank you for your videos that I will watch them carefully... and greetings from the other side of the world.

[@trainvicar4008]

Greetings to Switzerland. The inspiration for the channel came from a German book with quite a few Swiss photos (Gott und die Welt der Bahn) - I'll hopefully make a video about that later. I think Swiss railways are great - we lived in Switzerland for 2.5 years, while I did my PhD at the University of Bern. At the time I hardly took any videos of trains, just photos.

[@gustavkierson7444]

Screw the bible, it's full of lies and fallacy. I like trains though. Can't we have locomotives that have the ability to make use of the NIML electrification? And a non ecclesiastical question, what will it take to get second hand japanese rural rail sets running on our tracks providing regional services. Is it just the crossing points?

[@trainvicar4008]

I like the Bible of course and think it's full of truth. As to the other questions: Of course we could have hybrid diesel and electric locomotives (or even electric and battery locomotives). They are quite common overseas. The main difficulty with second-hand Japanese railcars is the loading gauge. Even though Japanese trains have the same track gauge as NZ trains, they are generally a bit taller and wider. That's apparently not so much a problem in Thailand, where Japanese trains can be used, even though new bogies have to be fitted, because Thailand has a 1 metre track gauge.