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Otago Central Railway [61B]: Finishing Maps – Clyde 1
So while I am working on the Addington mosaic, that is a pretty slow process with a lot of downtime waiting for Gimp to resize images, the best part is with another computer doing only that and nothing else, I can carry on with maps on my main computer. And in actuality that is a…
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Main North Line [11B]: Addington 2
The Addington mosaic has been a lot of fun. Working with so many large layers in one image is taxing on computer resources, and one relatively fast PC (its CPU is a Pentium G with 2 cores but no hyperthreading) with nothing else open and 16 GB of RAM is still quite slow working with…
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Main North Line [11A]: Addington, etc
Having completed sorting through aerial photos of the MNL and now having a complete set, the next task is to start doing stuff with the photos. The first thing that will happen is I will do a set of historical maps for Addington, as that is where the MNL starts. When I first started looking…
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Main North Line [10]: Aerial Photography
Most of the mapwork over the past few days has been with MNL aerial photography which has to be downloaded and then sorted through to pick up just the photos I want. This is a slow process because of the download limit of 3.5 GB per download from the Linz website and the number of…
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Main North Line [9]: Nonoti
Nonoti is a weirdly named little station in North Canterbury between Tormore and Mina. The exact distance is not recorded in the NZ Railway and Tramway Atlas, but it is between 116 and 117 km. The station closed in 1958. Around Nonoti a deviation was put in during the 1950s, apparently commissioned around 1961 (Don…
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Main North Line [8]: Full aerial coverage
During the migration to Qgis 3 I have started migrating the CWNM project to this edition and it needs a bit of work to fix up various things. Alongside this I have been doing a lot to get a full set of aerial photos for every line, although particularly the Main North Line at present. …
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Otago Central Railway [61A]: Finishing Maps
There has been quite a bit of progress with maps since the last blog post. I am just not blogging as often lately, but I will start to pick that up again. I have mapped the entire TGR line with all the detail available including full and half km posts and other details I can…
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Otago Central Railway [60C]: Ranfurly to Wingatui 3
Today I finished and submitted Part 3 of the Otago Central series to NZRO. I believe this edition will appear in print in about a month. The illustrations which have been submitted appear below. There was a minor crisis when I typed up the reference list and found it came to something like 1500 words.…
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Otago Central Railway [60B]: Wingatui to Ranfurly 2
Well it has been a few days since the last posting, however as of today I am commencing to write Part 3. Part 2 came out last week in the Observer and my chief regret is that the maps weren’t actually completed for Part 2. This only needed Auripo map to be finished before the…
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Otago Central Railway [60A]: Wingatui to Ranfurly 1
Wingatui to Ranfurly is Part 3 of the article series on the Otago Central Railway. This means I have to have all the knowledge about the line along this route finalised. In addition this part will contain more information about the private sidings of Alexandra. Right now I am using the recently obtained chainage book…