Edward Burkhardt
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Edward Arnold Burkhardt is a railroad executive, the founder and current chairman of Rail World.
Edward Burkhardt (center) in 1988
Tranz Rail
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Tranz Rail, formally Tranz Rail Holdings Limited, was the main rail operator in New Zealand from 1991 until it was purchased by Toll Holdings in June 2003.
DC4726 in New Zealand Rail livery at Avondale in the 1990s
DFT 7145 in Napier in Tranz Rail's bumble bee livery, in use June 2001–2004.
Tranz Rail introduced bulk milk trains during the late 1990s. Here a DC class locomotive shunts OM class milk wagons at Oringi on 11 December 2008.
Tranz Rail introduced the ferry Aratere in 1999.