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International Orange TR 367

This is my first successful attempt at making a QuickMod livery. It requires the template by Jotrain Gamer in order to function. Said template is on Steam Workshop:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2259854965

TR 367 is a special locomotive to me, mainly because she is a very rare type of locomotive these days (and I've only seen her twice).

The engine was made in New Zealand, just like me. She was built by A&G Price of Thames in 1957, entering service in April of that year. TR 367 was originally numbered as TR 105; not being renumbered until 1979.

The TR class is a curious sort amongst NZ motive power. They are incredibly small shunting locomotives - often referred to as shunting tractors - that were built by a variety of manufacturers (A&G Price, Drewry Car Co, Hitachi, NZR Hillside Workshops, W.G. Bagnall) for use at small rural yards where larger locomotives were not required. Examples of such yards in the North Island are Maungaturoto, Inglewood and Featherston.

Another notable fact about the TR's is how long some of them have remained in service. Most of the class were withdrawn and scrapped during the 1980's and 90's, with at least 38 examples being saved for preservation. Amazingly at least ten TR's have remained rostered and in service well into the KiwiRail era (2008 to present). This fleet consists of four Hillside, at least one A&G Price and five Hitachi TR's.

TR 367 - despite her age - was one of the TR's that KiwiRail kept in service and on their roster. In 2016, the engine was stationed in Te Awamutu to shunt wagons at the town's Fonterra dairy plant. And it was while assigned to this job when I first saw TR 367 back in October 2016.

After her stint as Te Awamutu's shunter, TR 367 was sent back to Te Rapa yards in Hamilton. In April 2019, I saw TR 367 a 2nd time. On the day in question she was sitting in Te Rapa yard with classmates 436 and 851 for company. TR 436 is a slightly newer generation of Price TR (built in 1963), while TR 851 is a Hitachi product (built in 1969).

367 remained on KiwiRail's books right up until August 2019, when her and classmate TR 436 was sold for preservation to the Bush Tramway Club; a heritage line on part of the former Glen Afton branch (west of the town of Huntly).

Today TR's 367 and 436 are safely housed at Pukemiro Junction, the headquarters of the Bush Tramway Club, and 367 has recently been repainted into something resembling her original 1957-era red livery.