Triple Header Kiwirail Y20K Shunt

Kiwirail Y20K shunt is often a combination of the Fonterra wagons from 932 & containers from the Y22 shunt. This is a rake of export containers that will go out to Port Chalmers to be loaded on to a container ship to be exported to overseas markets.
Listen to the rumble of the DXC locomotive as it lifts the rake of wagons and begins its journey through to Port Chalmers.
Kiwirail 932 runs between Edendale and Dunedin & the Y22 shunts run between Taieri and Dunedin.

[@malcolmyeates8212]

Are all the locomotives on line?

[@TravellingRailSpotter]

No just the front DX

[@aaronharvey7523]

Don't believe so.... A DXC is just an old Canadian loco, 50+ years old, with a new Cab... Hence the C... DXB's are the same thing, without the cab, but with BrightStar traction motors.... DC's are just Slave Units, what Americans call a Power Pack.... Unmanned, but have a jumper cable attached to provide more motive power. It's a flat run to Port Chalmers so I can't see why all these locos are going there... We used to drag that rake to port with a DSG Shunt loco... Small tunnel when you get to Dog Town... I used to stand on the last rake wagon, and pilot it through...

[@TravellingRailSpotter]

The DC locomotives without cab issues are still widely used at the head of trains.

[@TravellingRailSpotter]

I just think that the extra DX on the head was just added so the DC wasn't needed to be used for the journey to Port Chalmers. The DC would have been used for the journey up to Dunedin from Edendale though.

[@aaronharvey7523]

Ok Railspotter... I have never seen or heard of a DC class locomotive, crewed, heading a freight train in the South Island... Also I don't get why KiwiRail would drag a dead loco all the way to Port Chalmers... Wear and tear for no good reason. All those locos would have been cut off the head of that rake, and a DSG would have taken over. It's not economical to use Mainline locos for a shunt man as they would have to come all the way back to Dunedin as there is no way out of Dogtown via Port... Dunners is the staging point for anything going North or South.

[@aaronharvey7523]

Oh yeah, DC's don't have cab issues as they are constantly rebuilt to provide motive power... Unmanned.. You may have meant the DXC...

[@TravellingRailSpotter]

​@aaronharvey7523 DCP 4755 & DXC 5425 would have been on the head of 931/932 (Dunedin - Edendale). Often the evening Y22 shunt will pause in Dunedin before departing as Y20 to Port Chalmers & in the weekend the locos from 938 will heads out to Port.