20:3120:31, 12 July 2024diffhist+222
Taupo Totara Timber Railway
→Operations: Added TTT minutes as reference for mail contract. TAJHR lists the mail payment, it does not explicitly state that the TTT held the contract. The minute book states that the company had sealed contract and confirms the amount.current
02:0802:08, 10 July 2024diffhist+55
Taupo Totara Timber Railway
Included "TTT Railway" in short description and first paragraph. "TTT Railway" was very commonly used in the district through most of the 20th century
9 July 2024
23:5423:54, 9 July 2024diffhist+4
Lichfield, New Zealand
Replaced "tramway" with TTT Railway. In context, "tramway" is unnecessarily vague. The line was known throughout the district as the TTT Railwaycurrent
23:5123:51, 9 July 2024diffhist−143
Lichfield, New Zealand
Removed reference to the 1944 TTT sawmill fire at Mokai. The TTT had solid financial reasons for closing its railway, and in 1944 its milling operation had largely moved to Maroa, with transportation focused on trucking. It's unlikely that the fire contributed to the decision to dismantle the railway. I intend to mention this fire in my upcoming article on the TTT Company. In addition, I updated the hyperlink to the TTT Railway article
23:3823:38, 9 July 2024diffhist−31
Putāruru
Deleted reference to the TTT's temporary sawmill at Kopakorahi. This was a temporary mill which cut sleepers and bridge timbers during railway construction, between 1904 and 1905. It was sold in October 1905. In the TTT railway paragraph I updated the hyperlink to the TTT Railway article, and rewrote in active voicecurrent
23:2123:21, 9 July 2024diffhist−27
2-4-4-2
Rewrote the first sentence under TTT Number 7. As written, the sentence incorrectly implied that the Putaruru to Mokai line encompassed the entire TTT's bush tramway system. From Mokai, the TTT had bush tramway lines to various forests. Most were temporary. They were usually worked by geared locomotives.current
23:0623:06, 9 July 2024diffhist+51
Mokai
Changed "Mokai Tramway" to "Taupo Totara Timber Company Railway". Note that I did not use the macron on Taupō, because the TTT company's legal name did not use the macron. The TTT company is defunct so it cannot update the spelling of its name.
09:1609:16, 11 June 2024diffhist+97
Taupo Totara Timber Railway
Tidied text in locomotive roster. Deleted the word "geared" which is redundant for the well-known Heisler and Climax types (but not the price type E, which is rare and relatively unknown. Non-technical readers will likely be satisfied that the Heisler and Climax were unconventional. Also, hyperlinked "Stearns" to "Heisler Locomotive" article. Multiple sources say that Stearns was re-organised into the Heisler Locomotive Works, including the Heisler Locomotive Wikipedia article