Preserved Locomotives
One New Zealand Railways DSC class Bo-Bo shunter survives in traffic. This was one of 18 Rolls-Royce powered diesel-electric shunters of the DSC class to arrive in New Zealand in 1955. The remainder were all scrapped between 1986 and 1990.
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