All Aboard as the Zig Zag Steams Ahead Again

The train display at New-York Historical Society in Manhattan, N.Y., on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014. The Holiday Express exhibit features antique toys and trains from a collection amassed by a Pennsylvania couple, Jerry and Nina Greene. Shannon Liao/Epoch Times

With soot on the palms of his hands, under his fingernails and dusted across his nose and cheeks, Lee Wiggins is at one with a 54-tonne steam locomotive.

Wearing a black felt train driver’s hat, Wiggins was at the helm of one of the first passenger trips on the grand Zig Zag Railway on Saturday morning, a decade after the NSW Blue Mountains tourist icon was forced to close.