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In the very early days of railway construction in New Zealand there was a deliberate policy of using small locomotives and lightly laid rail to keep costs down. This policy was proved to be a mistake, but in remedying the situation many of the former small government railways locomotives were sold on to bu***ramway and industrial use, which is one of the reasons why the NZ logging railways were so distinctive as compared with the rest of the world. Also in the early days local engineering works would sometimes win government tenders to supply a locomotive or locomotives. One of these small works was Mills Brothers (and I can't give much more detail at the moment because I'm doing all this from memory). Mills Brothers built 3 small light locos of what became to be known as Class 'A' (Mills) and all of these eventually found their way onto bu***ramways [img]http://locomotiveannie.homestead.com/files/MillsLocoSkunk.jpg[/img]. This is 'Skunk' in as built condition, - I have no idea why this particular loco was given that name. [img]http://locomotiveannie.homestead.com/files/_A_ClassIn_Bush.JPG[/img] And this is one of the Class 'A' (Mills) locos after it had been working for some years on a timber tramway. I do actually own a photocopied set of drawings taken from the original general arrangement drawings and it's fairly plain that much was figured out on the job because the drawings are wee bit light on certain details. Some years ago I had a go at building a live steam Mills 'A' to 1/2 inch scale, but my marriage broke up around the same time and I'm afraid I haven't a clue what happened to it because once the dust settled I couldn't find a trace of it. So be warned, marriage and trains don't always mix and it may be better to sometimes to ditch the other half before you commit yourself to a serious project. ;-) Cheers, Annie
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