Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
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With thanks to Mark Seconi and SteamRail Wanganui Inc for their photo/video footage featured in this video. Do support the collection and the restoration of poor Skunk.
In September 2025 the most unusual discovery was dug up on a New Zealand beach, a 150 year old steam locomotive! Skunk was forgotten to time over 100 years ago, and the sand burying over its history. A mission was set out to rescue the tank engine and surf it across the beach to a new home, where it is now believed to be the oldest conventional engine built in the country. In this short documentary into the missing engine, we find out why it was lost there and what the future is for the rusted artefact.
#discovery #steamtrain
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With thanks to Mark Seconi and SteamRail Wanganui Inc for their photo/video footage featured in this video. Do support the collection and the restoration of poor Skunk.
In September 2025 the most unusual discovery was dug up on a New Zealand beach, a 150 year old steam locomotive! Skunk was forgotten to time over 100 years ago, and the sand burying over its history. A mission was set out to rescue the tank engine and surf it across the beach to a new home, where it is now believed to be the oldest conventional engine built in the country. In this short documentary into the missing engine, we find out why it was lost there and what the future is for the rusted artefact.
#discovery #steamtrain
